Anybody recognise these little critters? I sure hope they grow into a pretty butterfly, because they have completely defoliated my shrub.Lots of squashing to do I think.
I don’t know what species the shrub is, but it is a native with yellow pea flowers.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/th_P1010205.jpg
such a little picture AnneS, can you download a larger shot to your photobucket?
I got to a bigger picture via http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p70/beaver_album/
They look like … hmmm … now what is that flutterby called. The fairly common black and white guy.
Nope, just found a picture of the one I was thinking of (Common Crow), but they don’t have the red eyes.
Hops from one foot to the other…… I used to have nightmares about these bugger when i was little.
They used to drop from Grandma’s grape vine we had to walk under to get inside her back door. My mum used to hate the first couple of nights back from visiting her mum
My guess would be the caterpillar of one of the many webbing moths. Hand removal is the advised control.
It’s a Grape Vine Moth Caterpillar.
Phalaenoides glycine
http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/778/
bubba louie said:
It’s a Grape Vine Moth Caterpillar.
Phalaenoides glycinehttp://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/778/
Thanks Bubba. Pity help my grape vine then if they find it. Better get the gloves out and do some squashing!!!
bubba louie said:
It’s a Grape Vine Moth Caterpillar.
Phalaenoides glycinehttp://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/778/
See, see told ya they were all over my grandma’s grape vines….sucks thumb and curls up in a fetal position.
Lucky1 said:
bubba louie said:
It’s a Grape Vine Moth Caterpillar.
Phalaenoides glycinehttp://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/778/
See, see told ya they were all over my grandma’s grape vines….sucks thumb and curls up in a fetal position.
That you did! I didn’t doubt you! lol. Did you still manage to get grapes off Grannie’s vine?
AnneS said:
Lucky1 said:
bubba louie said:
It’s a Grape Vine Moth Caterpillar.
Phalaenoides glycinehttp://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/778/
See, see told ya they were all over my grandma’s grape vines….sucks thumb and curls up in a fetal position.
That you did! I didn’t doubt you! lol. Did you still manage to get grapes off Grannie’s vine?
Two things I can recommend:
get yourself some bird life or spray with dipel.
roughbarked said:
Two things I can recommend:
get yourself some bird life or spray with dipel.
I have both fortunately. I have only bought the dipel on a whim the other day. Was going to use rhubarb leaf spray, but haven’t got around to cooking it up. It’s been a bit too windy to spray so we’ve just been collecting the grubs. Almost filled an old peanut butter jar with about 10 minutes collecting.
I get quite a variety of birds, but predominantly small birds including willie wagtails, superb blue wrens, firetails, robins, rosellas, glossy black cockatoos, wattle birds, pee-wees, magpies, occasional kookaburras, and on the dam ducks, plovers and occasionally cormorants and egrets. At certain times of the year (mostly during winter) I see a couple of kestrels.
By the far the most abundant are the blue wrens and robins. They come up onto the verandah. The robins nest under the eaves (so my verandah is constantly covered in bird poo ..agh) and the wrens play around in the star jasmine.
I rent 5 acres in the middle of an 80 acre farm adjacent to the state forest. There was no garden when we first moved here in 2002 but we are gradually adding trees and shrubs (whatever we can get on the cheap or propogate ourselves…mostly native).