How can I handle caterpillars during flower ?

[Cammcdan]

I been finding caterpillars in some of the nugs. There eating the inside of the Nugs and I’ve been picking them off one by one. How should I handle this problem?

 

[buyyouabeer]

Sadly you now most likely have botytris...

 

[BostonBuds]

What strain? How big is the infestation? Are they in pots or in the ground? Photos? What kind, how big are they?

 

[Cammcdan]

What strain? How big is the infestation? Are they in pots or in the ground? Photos? What kind, how big are they?

Wedding cake, 25 gal smart pots, it’s not too bad yet but I find them consistently and there mostly really small.

 

[BostonBuds]

I wonder if spraying the plant with a little dawn dish soap and water will kill them.

 

[Cammcdan]

I wonder if spraying the plant with a little dawn dish soap and water will kill them.

Should I do that or spray with BT?

 

[SCM 831]

I been finding caterpillars in some of the nugs. There eating the inside of the Nugs and I’ve been picking them off one by one. How should I handle this problem?

You can’t

 

[Caliverner]

Should I do that or spray with BT?

 

[thumper60]

I been finding caterpillars in some of the nugs. There eating the inside of the Nugs and I’ve been picking them off one by one. How should I handle this problem?

BT!

 

[Bosgrower]

How late in flower can you use it? I seem to recall reading that it's really only OK during the first half of flower

 

[Wizzlebiz]

Spinosad.

Can be sprayed on flowers up until a week before harvest.

Great for caterpillars, thripes, spider mites, and so on.

Its a insecticide soap.

 

[BostonBuds]

Should I do that or spray with BT?

I was trying to think of solutions i may have around the house already. I never heard of BT, but if others are recommending you should look into it. I was also thinking about hydrogen peroxide, I use it once in awhile to spray on with water to prevent white mold and read it can kill bugs.

 

[Bosgrower]

Did some reseaarch and you can use it right up to harvest. Has to be applied at dusk or at night since it breaks down in sunlight. You have to dose the entire plant with it. Caterpillars will feed and then stop eating until they die a few days later.

 

[Davmalk]

BT is great but you're a little late in the game.

 

[Cammcdan]

Should I go for it anyway?

 

[Davmalk]

Depending on your grow. If you’re in the last two weeks of flowering no but if you’re in your second or third week I would. But dead or alive you’ve still got to get rid of all those worms. Bt isn’t a contact killer the worms need to ingest it to kill them.

 

[Cammcdan]

Depending on your grow. If you’re in the last two weeks of flowering no but if you’re in your second or third week I would. But dead or alive you’ve still got to get rid of all those worms. Bt isn’t a contact killer the worms need to ingest it to kill them.

 

[Cammcdan]

I keep finding little caterpillars buried in the nugs eating from inside out. I’m not sure what I should do. I’m in week 3 of flower. But I need to act fast

 

[Cammcdan]

Here’s a pic

 

[buyyouabeer]

Here’s a pic

Not looking good. I grow indoors but found this online...

"Another possible source of infection are caterpillars, a true classic in many gardens during autumn. Apart from the damages caused by their eating action (twisted leaves, drilled buds, etc) they literally drill our buds, so that rains or dew fill the orifices left by the caterpillars and enable the development of botrytis. The typical symptoms of an infection of botrytis are bud rot, which acquires a brown/grey colour and completely changes its texture, which becomes cottony and brittle. A typical early symptom are whitered bud leaves: if we remove the bud, we’ll probably see botrytis between the main stem and the flower. In this case, we should remove all infected buds and immediately treat the plant with some fungicide product, provided that we’re still on time (we don’t recommend any treatment if plants are about to be harvested).

Thus, our best option to avoid these situations is always using a preventive against caterpillars during summer (for example, with Bacillus Thuringiensis) and until our plants end the pre-flowering stage. It is important to remember that this is a preventive action (directly against caterpillars and indirectly against botrytis) so we must use the product even if we don’t see any caterpillar on our plants (BT is especially efficient against larvae, not to eradicate adults)."

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