Fig Tree pest id please

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2023

  We’ve had quite a few queries about these this year … it seems they’re tortrix moth caterpillars. 

  I’ve got them on my fig tree … I’m just squishing them between finger and thumb. 
  

  
  

  Info here

  https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/tortrix-moth-caterpillars 
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• LG_ Posts: 4,360

  July 2023

  As Dove says, there seem to be a lot of them about - several queries this summer. I was squishing them daily but I couldn't keep up, sadly. 
  https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1056893/fig-tree-pests/ 
  

  'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'

  - Cicero

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• purr-fectkittyGkiC72GF Posts: 2

  July 2023

  Thankyou so much. At least i know what they are.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  July 2023

  Maybe you could pick them off and put them on the bird table,  they’ll eat them,  better than killing them.

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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