Worms and Whiteflies - UGH!

10 years ago

I love my brugmansias (angel trumpets), but they are high-maintenance plants that must be checked every day to keep the baddies off if you don't want to use chemicals. I did not get to go out and check leaves yesterday, and today I found over 100 little black striped worms stripping one plant and spilling over onto another. Whiteflies had reinfested them as well, but not badly yet. So I spent an hour picking worms and spraying for whiteflies. This is on 4 relatively small plants. I can't imagine what it will be like when they all get big. I think I may have to limit myself to only one or two. As soon as I find out what colors the other three are, I'm going to be giving some away U-dig and planting something that is a little easier-care in their places.

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10 years ago
Identified the worms as army worms. I went out this morning and pulled off several more, but I dropped one, so I'm sure he'll be making a reappearance. I didn't even know that armyworms ate brugs! I didn't have them in SW FL at all, just the hornworms. Here, I seem to have a large assortment of caterpillars to contend with; hornworms, army worms, eggplant leaf-rollers, canna leaf-rollers, and probably a few I haven't seen yet.
oldmangroot
10 years ago
Ugh! Hate those things! Lucky for me this year armyworms seemed to adore my nepenthes x Miranda pitcher plant - filled up the pitchers in days. Haven't seen any cats since.
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10 years ago
I still see the moths, and I check every day for worms. The last one was one fat one trying to chew the top out of a brug that is "y"ing. I got him and haven't seen any more, but my plants are rather chewed up now.