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Recently I seem to be finding caterpillars or evidence of caterpillars all around my garden. These are not cabbage whites and not the dot moth caterpillars I had earlier in the year. Some are brown, and some are bright green with a faint yellow stripe down each side (I think these may be silver Y moth or some similar moth), both sorts about an inch to an inch and a half long.
Both sorts seem to be attracted to my new black plastic wormery and I have found 2 of each climbing it in the last couple of days. I don't mind them on the wormery, but something (something large by the look of the mouse dropping sized caterpillar poo) is eating my chard. I've poked around, lifted leaves and had a really good look, and I can't find anything bigger than a 1/8th inch long slug, which is smaller than the lumps of poo on the leaves so can't be responsible. The chard is next to (touching) broccoli leaves, which are relatively uneaten.
Then today when I was rearranging my veggiemesh cage, I found 2 of the green ones inside the cage, eating the carrot foliage. Another pot of carrots under a single veggiemesh net has been almost defoliated by something.
How have they got into the veggiemesh? I can cope with cabbage whites, but houdini caterpillars and invisible chard munchers are a bit much at this time of year!
Both sorts seem to be attracted to my new black plastic wormery and I have found 2 of each climbing it in the last couple of days. I don't mind them on the wormery, but something (something large by the look of the mouse dropping sized caterpillar poo) is eating my chard. I've poked around, lifted leaves and had a really good look, and I can't find anything bigger than a 1/8th inch long slug, which is smaller than the lumps of poo on the leaves so can't be responsible. The chard is next to (touching) broccoli leaves, which are relatively uneaten.
Then today when I was rearranging my veggiemesh cage, I found 2 of the green ones inside the cage, eating the carrot foliage. Another pot of carrots under a single veggiemesh net has been almost defoliated by something.
How have they got into the veggiemesh? I can cope with cabbage whites, but houdini caterpillars and invisible chard munchers are a bit much at this time of year!
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