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red-currant--spikey-caterpillars-
Foolio
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Trying to be an organic/friendly gardener.... New red currant bush planted this year did not fruit, top leaves got tight, dry and curly so I kept hosing off!! Caterpillars have established that look like spikey bird poo's!! They are obviously munching away, ok to leave them now? Will this effect next years crop??
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Ha typical went outside to get a photo and there isn't a single one on there today?!?! Saw about 5 Yesterday!?! I don't think they were saw fly as I have them on my gooseberry each year!! These critters were hairy & spikey, with brown at one end white at the other? Oh well ...off to feed the bushes :0)
You say spikey bird poos, gooseberry saw fly caterpillars aren't spikey. Peacock butterfly caterpillars are spikey and black and white.
I have just found exactly the same thing on my redcurrants. Only found 2 caterpillars, but they are very hairy and on their back they are a brownish red at the head end which changes to white at the tail end. Have found other little green ones too which I have had on my gooseberrys and might be the sawfly mentioned earlier. They seem to be munching side by side!
Are they like these? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNv6I4Ip7hA
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No defo not peacock caterpillars!
How wonderful - lucky you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you for letting us know. So often people don't, when I really want to know what happened in the end. Clever you to keep the chrysalis safe and see the butterflies. At least Dove and I guessed butterflies!
urgh yuk Dove ! That video not nice lol thank The Lord, I haven't got them or at least not in that number