Strawberry cough, growing outdoors. It has been raining a lot and humidity is pretty high. What you guys reckon?
There is yellow spots on a lot of the leaves
in some of the buds it looks like little spider webs and I looked inside and there was a little caterpillar?
Some leaves had the web underneath, i've removed them.
I've sprayed neem oil and also done some hydrogen peroxide spray. You can see the catepillar i found in amoungst the webbing on the buds in the last photo.
Caterpillars, destroyers of buds.
I think the white web is where the moth laid eggs.
And once adult, caterpillars like to be inside the bud and eat it from the inside out, can be devastating.
Also more fungus from all the caterpillar excrements.
Great, thanks guys. I've gone through and basically removed all the fan leaves that had yellow spots, which was most of them, and gone through all the buds and pulled any little webs off and checked for caterpillars, found another one in amoungst the web. Will investigate some BTK. Thanks :).