Learning how to water plants to increase growth in pots, container or garden - especially how to water roots and tubers. Specialities: root growth or tuber growth of lawns, fuchsias, geraniums, dahlias and begonias.

26 August 2010

More Caterpillar Damage

moth-damaged fuchsia budThe hole in this fuchsia bud is caused by a caterpillar produced by a huge brown moth. It lays just one egg which hatches into the caterpillar, capable of immense damage and usually extremely difficult to find.

Holes in the leaves and black pellet-like droppings are other signs.

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