Soll ich einfach den Vermögen teilen, oder werden sie auf die Gesundheit meines Werks für das nächste Jahr wirken?
Von: Norman_Small_Esquire
Soll ich einfach den Vermögen teilen, oder werden sie auf die Gesundheit meines Werks für das nächste Jahr wirken?
Von: Norman_Small_Esquire
12 Comments
To be honest I let the caterpillars feast on all of my plants. Although the roses have another couple of months of flowering to go I think this will be okay.
After all, we can’t enjoy butterflies without caterpillars can we?
After a certain point I just leave my plants and let nature do its thing.
Those guys need just as much help as some of us.
Leave them to it I say.
yeah, i let them do whatever they want, that’s a great boost for the soil
That one leaf must be super tasty.
Yes I let them go on mine these days. These will grow up to be saw fly, a kind of stingless waspy insect, they are pollinators and voracious aphid eaters!
Yep, let em be. Your roses will survive these.
Thanks for your input guys. I’m going to let them stay.
They were all over a willow tree volunteer that is almost 6ft, they skeletonize the leaves and the tree just put out more small leaves. I leave them just knowing more about our ecosystems. My mother and her mother would go nuclear on them. They’d also salt the soil where weeds grew. So I choose to be different. My willow looks absolutely fine.
Sawfly larvae! They totally destroyed my gooseberries last year. Less of a problem this year, and my gooseberries recovered brilliantly.
One of those pests that have good years and bad years. I don’t worry too much. Roses are hard to kill.
Made me smile, yes let the Bluetits feast on them.
They’re not caterpillars. They’re sawfly and they’re utter pests.
Leave them be – you’ll have butterflies and loads of birds coming to visit too!