ARGH! Caterpillar season in Sydney. (rant)

[magicpigeon]

And here's the kicker: my chickens don't eat these! They are the disgusting, hairy type and they come in S.W.A.R.M.S. I've just ran out from the toilet after finding FIVE surrounding the flush button. I am the world's biggest bug wimp out there and cockroach/fly spray hardly affects them. I've also brought a chicken into the house only to discover they aren't interested at all!

Curse caterpillar season!! (And all the other things associated with it such as: PMS, rain, daylight saving and running out of grower. AGAIN.)

ETA: Just found a picture. Wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of them?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Oh, hes cute!

 

[SLWyandotte]

there is this really old method of getting rid of bugs. it works on all of them. you get an old shoe and smack the bug with it. dead bug.

 

[redhen]

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X2! I'd like to have them around...

 

[SourRoses]

Are those butterfly caterpillars or moth ones? If they're moths, just squish em... if they're butterflies

maybe you could relocate them outside?

 

[Royd]

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What's the difference? They all destroy crops. After all, there are some beautiful moths.....Why do you hate moths?

 

[SourRoses]

Because moths are batty! Hehehe! Butterflies are pretty. Moths are crazy and insistent when they see light at night, or want to drown themselves in my drink... See?

 

[wekiva bird]

They look like the ones I have here in south carolina. They eat my blueberrys plants.