Wtf is eating my leaves. Outdoor.

Something has been realling chowing down on my leaves and now i'm getting pissed.



Any idea what it is and how I can stop it?????


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looks like caterpillars to me.

i'm not sure on how you stop them exactly, some nasty sprays out there will kill anything that eats your plants. seeing as you are so early on and there is no bud i would go nuclear on they asses

whatever it was......was hungry. i bet the worst is over, but spray with neem oil solution anyway

That was my first thought, they must be alive from alll the buds they ate off my plants last harvest.

I still have some safer cater piller i'll spray them with.

Any other guesses, thats sounds right just wanna here some other opinions.

scroglodyte said:

whatever it was......was hungry. i bet the worst is over, but spray with neem oil solution anyway

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They've been sprayed with neem every two weeks

Do you ever see what looks like white butterflies hanging about? Well kill them...they are laying eggs on your plants, and these little bitty green caterpillars are born from the eggs and just decimate whatever plant they are attached to...

what are caterpillers afraid of? dogerpillers.

the little bitches that chow down on my plants are called loopers... they are green caterpillars that eat your plants before turning into moths... I use Spinosad pellets in the soil and I spray the leaves down with neem oil

missnu said:

Do you ever see what looks like white butterflies hanging about? Well kill them...they are laying eggs on your plants, and these little bitty green caterpillars are born from the eggs and just decimate whatever plant they are attached to...

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Ya i know that, I have a bug zapper set up this year to kill the moths and butterflies that lay the larvae but i'm thinking there are caterpillers that survived the winter from last year after storing up on my buds.

Caterpillars have very short lives...they will never be left after last year...they turn into butterflies, and most butterflies only live a week...so they are new...lol

missnu said:

Caterpillars have very short lives...they will never be left after last year...they turn into butterflies, and most butterflies only live a week...so they are new...lol

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Haha ok i'm not gonna argue i've found big fat caterpillers hiding under buckets and pots when cleaning up a few weeks ago, they havent turned into butterflies yet bro.

BT for 'pillers.. Beer in a buried can for slugs/snails..bait if you wish.

Loook what I found munching on the babies.


Any ideas on what I can spray them with to help prevent these bastards besides neem oil.

-BUD

Could be grasshoppers

Spinosad, which is biological, is a great produce for many bugs, caterpillar, ants, aphids. Its a great product. It also could be beetles. Have you checked for feeders at night? Asiantic Garden Beatles (also know as those fuckers) feed at night, you can pick them off but they burro into the ground when you touch then. Rotenone is a powder that will stick to the leaves. It is organic but I would not use it in flower. It is an old product that I have use when needed on vegetables and I have know reason to think that it could not be used in veg.

Budologist420 said:

Loook what I found munching on the babies.

Any ideas on what I can spray them with to help prevent these bastards besides neem oil.

-BUD

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That is an ear wig. From what I have read, they don't do much damage to foliage. Looks like cabbage moth damage to me.
BT spray will help. Netting is better

Coho said:

BT for 'pillers.. Beer in a buried can for slugs/snails..bait if you wish.

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Makes me wanna grow outside just to catch some slugs in a beer can, I wonder what would happen if u caught a bunch and poured a ton of salt in there, would the can start to fizz over with slug slime?