I'm a newbie to brugs and I'm not familiar with their most common pests. I have 2 that are a foot tall and 4 6-inch seedlings. The taller ones are getting some fairly large holes (big enough to fit my thumb through) in the leaves and the babies and getting a few much smaller holes. I can't find anything on any of the plants. They're all in pots on my front porch. What do you think the most likely culprit could be? I have a digital camera so I can post some pictures if that would help.
Mary Ann
Something's eating my brugs!
Usually this time of year it's caterpillars. Some of them are green and are really hard to see.
Grasshoppers eat the leaves as do katydids.
It could also be snails or slugs, they come out at night. Lift up the pots and see if they are hiding under them during the daytime.
Mary Ann those caterpillars like to hide in the new growth-also under the leaves. I have found that early morning is a good time to find them. Sometimes they are tiny green worms-don't know if they are caterpillars or not but they eat a lot to be so tiny.
Thanks for your help. How do I get rid of the caterpillars? I know what to do for slugs (although I hope like heck it's caterpillars instead. Yuck!)
For caterpillars I use the finger method and smush!!
Finger method works for me too Barbara. You can buy Bt to spray, be sure you don't spray it where the monarch and swallowtail cats are though(on milkweeds, dill and parsley) and the gulf frits on the passifloras.
what kind are the white hairy ones?------i have gobs of those right now. :(
That is the kind I'm having Plays. I think they are all gone and the next day there are more of them. My poor brugs nearly all have holes in them now. I'm sure glad this is toward the end of the season and not the beginning.
I think the white hairy ones are a type of wooly bear cat. They seem to come in several colors: white, yellow, orange.
I think I have some of those big lubbers eating mine. Do they eat brugs? They were eating on the old leaves of my Simpion lilies, but I didn't care because they were yellowing anyways. Now I'm thinking they've moved on to the brugs. *sigh* I don't like killing things. Why can't they just eat the ugly weeds and stuff??
I was in the garden tonight and the grasshoppers are doing more damage now than the cats. I also see whiteflies now. Guess tomorrow I'll have to get out the Sevin and see if I can stop some of this munching and chewing.
you could collect em and dump then into your least favorite neighbors flowerbed. Once I caught a mouse in a towel, and decided to release it back into the wild via my neighbors yard lololol* she saw me :S she calledand asked me what what I just dropped in her yard-------I fessed up and to my suprise she laughed hysterically.
LOL Play! Talk about getting caught redhanded!
That would be my luck.
A friend of mine had to go out of town today to buy jars for canning. At a store in the next town, they told her they didn't have any jars because people were canning everything in sight. She said that if grasshoppers could be eaten they would probably can them. I guess our dry summer has people concerned for the winter and availability of food for families.
that is so sad though Brugie. I hope that will not be the case. I did read where they are saying it is going to be a brutal winter. I wonder if that is true cross the country.
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All the old timers are saying that when you have a dry summer like we have had this year, the winter will be horrible. Both cold and lots of snow and ice. I can handle it all but the ice and then I just stay home.
So what about us that got drowned? Any insight there? :)
The good ole' boys only talk about our local weather. We are a farming community and they are pretty good at predicting. I hope you all down that way have a good winter and an even better year next year. Seems it has been tough all over the world this year.