Who am I? (caterpillar)

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by Junebug

Here's an eco-friendly solution: Place a bird bath and bird feeder near the infested plants and this will encourage birds to feed on the caterpillars.

That's not working for me

I have a gooseberry bush which keeps getting destroyed every year by Cabbage White cattapillers (but poor bush tries again each year). The bird bath and bird feeder is almost directly above it and the birds just don't seem interested in the grubs on the bush.

This spring I picked 60+ catapillers off by hand (it's not even a very big gooseberry bush) and I keep finding odd ones every time I check. So far this year it's looking OK but I think I will just have to keep them down by hand as those stupid birds aren't doing it for me

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by RosieC

That's not working for me

I have a gooseberry bush which keeps getting destroyed every year by Cabbage White cattapillers (but poor bush tries again each year). The bird bath and bird feeder is almost directly above it and the birds just don't seem interested in the grubs on the bush.

This spring I picked 60+ catapillers off by hand (it's not even a very big gooseberry bush) and I keep finding odd ones every time I check. So far this year it's looking OK but I think I will just have to keep them down by hand as those stupid birds aren't doing it for me

I don't think I could deal with that many. Maybe if I had gloves on. and a pressure sprayer and some bird-friendly poison.


Found four other big guys that I missed- they are now equally distributed among the pots (these are in huge bowl planters).

Crossing fingers that they'll grow and pupate!
Need to hunt down leaf litter....