If you find an adult, you’ll likely find more over the next week or so. Eggs may have been laid on your plant somewhere and you’ll soon see bits of damage. Look under the leaves and you’ll might find tiny little caterpillars. I often find them just a half inch long or so. They can do a surprising amount of damage.
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Little sh!*
I hear the moths are pretty.
Congrats!
If you find an adult, you’ll likely find more over the next week or so. Eggs may have been laid on your plant somewhere and you’ll soon see bits of damage. Look under the leaves and you’ll might find tiny little caterpillars. I often find them just a half inch long or so. They can do a surprising amount of damage.
May it soon be covered by parasitic wasps!
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Finger for scale. Absolute unit I found
Grow it and they will come.
It’s funny what a turd these things are at caterpillars, but they are fantastic pollinators when they become moths.
She is a beauty. I see them in my nightmares.
If you have one you have more. Destructive little pests.
I feed them to my turtle. But I save 1 to gow full Mothra just to keep the cycle of free turtle food.
I found 3 horn worms infected with wasp larvae in my tomatoes
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