On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:27:19 GMT, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

I have no way to post a picture so I am sorry you will have to
work from
1000 words as they say. I am in Australia where it is high
summer, hot and
showery at present.

A grub that I have never seen before just stripped a fig plant
in a pot.
All the leaves are reduced to paper thin lace, this took about
24 hrs for a
2ft (60cm) plant as it was fine beforehand.

The attackers are up to about 3/4in (18mm) long with segmented
bodies and a
pair of legs on each segment I think, my eyesight is not that
good, lots of
legs anyway. Each one has a similar number of segments, about
12. Some are
smaller and presumeably given enough food they would all grow
bigger.


Sounds like some kind of a caterpillar, rather than a grub. Look
for a spray or powder that contains Bacillus thuriengensis (BT).
Or, pick them off and squish them.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.