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OK...so I started the Dipel about the end of July at a 2 week interval. I could also see A LOT of the white moths with 2 spots on their wings flying around the vegetable and medi garden. I had researched and found out they are "white satin" moths....more like SATAN! So at the end of August I released Trichogramma wasp eggs to combat the moths, and changed up the BT regimen to once a week. I released the rest of the wasp eggs about 2 weeks ago. About midway through August a buddy noticed these "eggs" on my trellis line.
I was floored! I didn't want to immediately kill them...especially after wiping out an army of lady bug eggs a month prior. I didn't know what they were. (just another example of too many years inside!) So I began a hunt for them. I found 13 deposits on the trellis that day. They seemed to drop the eggs on the trellis near the outer edges of the plant and usually in one of the middle tiers...Such that as they would hatch they could easily descend to on of the awaiting buds. I would find about 6 to 10 of these egg lines every 3 days or so. They start out very cream colored and darken as they get closer to dropping their intended package. I began to keep a bud with a few strands of the eggs at various stages in a jar to see what they actually were when they hatched...Budworms!
I had not seen any signs of these little bastards on my buds until yesterday. Mother %$#@&%s got into 2 of my plants. Arm length spears with brown spots appeared overnight....and I have been spraying religiously with a brand of BT called Dipel. Now here is my question for someone who may know about BT and these caterpillar/worms....Does the BT only control these insects when in the larval stage? I mean once they are caterpillars do you then have to attack with something different?...spinosad? Any help is appreciated.
I was floored! I didn't want to immediately kill them...especially after wiping out an army of lady bug eggs a month prior. I didn't know what they were. (just another example of too many years inside!) So I began a hunt for them. I found 13 deposits on the trellis that day. They seemed to drop the eggs on the trellis near the outer edges of the plant and usually in one of the middle tiers...Such that as they would hatch they could easily descend to on of the awaiting buds. I would find about 6 to 10 of these egg lines every 3 days or so. They start out very cream colored and darken as they get closer to dropping their intended package. I began to keep a bud with a few strands of the eggs at various stages in a jar to see what they actually were when they hatched...Budworms!
I had not seen any signs of these little bastards on my buds until yesterday. Mother %$#@&%s got into 2 of my plants. Arm length spears with brown spots appeared overnight....and I have been spraying religiously with a brand of BT called Dipel. Now here is my question for someone who may know about BT and these caterpillar/worms....Does the BT only control these insects when in the larval stage? I mean once they are caterpillars do you then have to attack with something different?...spinosad? Any help is appreciated.
