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tiny fuzzy black caterpillar on "curry plant"

10 years ago

I will try to get a picture on here later tonight, but I'm curious if anyone will know off the top of their head or are familiar with this possible pest.

For the first time this year I purchased a "Curry Plant" (Helichrysum italicum). I know it's not really edible, but I liked the aroma, the silvery color, and thought it might be fun to infuse in a coctail of some kind. This weekend I noticed that at the tops of my small plant, the leaves had been pulled together and seemed to be connected by webbing. My current guess is that it has webworms (I've read they can be a pest of this plant), but the caterpillar that I was able to pull out was very tiny, dark black, and very fuzzy. I've not been able to locate any tiny black fuzzy webworms in my internet search - even in the larvae stage, so I'm wondering if I'm dealing with something else?

Anyone know?

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