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bordersandjacks Seabrook, SC(Zone 8b) Jun 27, 2008

They have mowed through my baptisia alba, and do not want to move on to the yellow and blue varieties, but they don't have an option.

Thanks,
Jenny

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Jun 27, 2008

Jenny, those are the Genista caterpillars:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hortipm.tamu.edu/pestprofiles/chewing/genista/genista1a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hortipm.tamu.edu/pestprofiles/chewing/genista/genista.html&h=201&w=300&sz=48&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=iyCigzVtdCBp7M:&tbnh=78&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgenista%2Bcaterpillars%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS276%26sa%3DN

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bordersandjacks Seabrook, SC(Zone 8b) Jun 27, 2008

Yuck. I knew it wasn't going to be good. You go on vacation for a week and look what happens! I'll go feed them to the chickens.

Thanks!

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Jun 27, 2008

Haha, yep, not good.....but lucky chickens!

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