Is this diseased or pests? Pics included

TheGrassIsGreenerInAus

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Ok very long story short, I've been battling shrivelling heads and growth tips all season. Eventually I found tiny caterpillars in the heads (pictured in a previous post) Now I used BT a couple days back and I'm not finding basically any caterpillars. BUT I'm still losing growth and random tips. The plant as a whole looks great first pic but I'm still finding these dying tips and leaves, and have a look at the pictures, notice how only in the third pic one blade is shrivelled the rest look healthy? That's what happens all over the entire head isn't dying but single tiny little hairs (not pistils they are green plant matter lol) in the tip are dying off or single blades of the leaves, if you look at the second pic I think, you'll see a tip from the stem just disappeared nothin' was left but a tiny brown spot that turned to dust when I touched it, it's completely inexplicable. She's not showing nute deficiency hell theyve ALL done this over the grow and I'm really confused, is my yard just completely pest ridden or what. The final pic of that really horrible looking head, THATS what pyrethrum spray does to Mary :/IMG_20190110_120935.jpg IMG_20190110_121058.jpg IMG_20190110_120916.jpg IMG_20190110_121112.jpg
 

Dmannn

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Get some yellow sticky traps and see if you catch any flying munchers. The more the better. Keep the lights out at night if you have moths in the area, they will lay their eggs at night on your plants. Caterpillars are as elusive as a tweaker with credit card debt.
 
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