actually, they are just in our garden...haven't seen them in this QUANTITY
anywhere else (we only have an acre (but our dreams are to move north and
be self suffiencient)

"Tina Gibson" wrote in message
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"joe s" wrote in message
...
they are hitting EVERYTHING...we are catching them, but there are TONS
of
eggs all OVER our plants...

wanting to stay organic, is there anything we can do?

DE maybe?

TIA

What kind of caterpillars? We just went through our peak of tent
catapillars
for 3 yrs in a row ending last yr. We have 90 acres so there really was
not
much point in doing anything. Lived with it (although it was pretty hard
walking through the bush with them falling on your head) and dreamed of
this
yr when they would be gone and we could have apples and cherries again...
The trees survived and the birds thrived.
You may have luck scraping the eggs off - but if it is a peak season it'll
be a losing battle. If you want to remain orgainic a hard spray of water
to
knock them off and drown them. There are many tricks to keep them off of
flowering trees - aluminum foil that they can't climb over, tanglefoot
that
traps them, google it organic- you'll find lots. Tina