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"simy1" wrote:

.. and it happened in no more than five days. I was away on a trip, and
the parsnips looked good when I left. I see no caterpillars, though a
caterpillar must be because the leaves are eaten completely except the
veins. Five plants, interplanted amongst the tomatoes, are affected.
Three other were not. The main parsnip crop, 15 ft away, is unaffected
so far. Culprits? remedies? I may spray them with Sevin.


It also could have been these:

http://home.centurytel.net/Katraslin...shAndWorms.jpg

I've had a HORRIBLE time with these little *******s! I can't even grow
Cauliflower or Brocolli in the spring, only in the winter when it's too
cold for them! They also attack the swiss chard somewhat, but don't do
major damage. Here, in this pic', they attacked my horseradish.

Sevin has done zilch to control them.

I need to, and intend to, go to the nursery and get some bacillus
thuringiensis.

It is supposed to be superior for caterpillar control!

I finally moved my chard into 1 gallon pots inside the greenhouse to
keep the moths off.

I've hand picked hundreds of these worms off my chewed plants. :-(

Dawn and dusk......

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