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Chookie · 01-03-2007, 01:39 AM posted to aus.gardens

In article .com,
wrote:

On Feb 28, 7:23 pm, Chookie wrote:
Dipel. It's actually a naturally occurring bacteria that attacks
caterpillars.

BUT -- do you really have a big problem? Are they eating everything in
sight?
Or are you just worried that they *will*? Or are they spitfires? If you
can
live without using Dipel, I would try -- wasps and dragonflies ilke eating
caterpillars, and you could get something interesting when the caterpillars
turn into butterflies.

... or cabbage moths.

I'm all for killing cabbage moth caterpillars!

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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