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I have several grapevines in backyard here in Las Vegas. In the last week
or so I have noticed that the leaves on them are are being eating very
voraciously by caterpillars. They are yellow with black bands. The link
below has a photograph of one of them I took today. Any recommendations on
what to stop them with?

http://members.cox.net/jerry-n-vegas/bug.htm


Sounds like the Western Grape Leaf Skeletonizer. The adult phase is a small
dark blue moth which resembles a wasp with feather like antennas. The
caterpillars are yellow, and blue striped that feed side by side eating the
leaves leaving only the veins. After manually picking off and destroying
the caterpillars and any eggs, the recommended control is a Bt spray. Do a
web search - there is a lot of info on this.

Olin


Thanks Olin. Got a place to start my research now.