Hi all,
Today I found this butterfly on my eggplant. Is it harmful for the plants?
Thanks
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| Author: | technics [ Jul 26th, '12, 02:17 ] | ||
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Hi all, Today I found this butterfly on my eggplant. Is it harmful for the plants? Thanks
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| Author: | DrLuke [ Jul 26th, '12, 03:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Can anyone tell me what type of butterfly and is it harmful? |
That looks like a moth to me... Not sure on what kind |
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| Author: | gorotsuki69 [ Jul 26th, '12, 04:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can anyone tell me what type of butterfly and is it harm |
Possibly a type of cutworm moth. I would be on the lookout for caterpillars |
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| Author: | technics [ Jul 26th, '12, 04:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can anyone tell me what type of butterfly and is it harm |
It is only one now and only saw it flying around today. Should just get rid of it? |
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| Author: | julia_bites [ Jul 26th, '12, 09:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can anyone tell me what type of butterfly and is it harm |
Looks like a Sphinx moth, weather or not it is a problem you will have to google ________________ I was once young and stupid, i'm not so young now |
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| Author: | faye [ Jul 26th, '12, 10:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can anyone tell me what type of butterfly and is it harm |
The moth itself is not a problem as it won't be feasting on your plants, however it is probably there to lay eggs on a plant that is suitable fodder for its larva, caterpillar stage. The caterpillars can do a lot of damage and in a short time, if you can get rid of the moth it prevents more eggs being laid. The other thing to do is spray with bacillus thuringiensis (Dipel-Australian brand name) http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/BTgen.pdf The caterpillar ingests the posion and dies, preventing plants from further attack, safe for use in an aquaponic system. You can still collect the caterpillars and feed to the fish. I love Dipel 
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| Author: | scotty435 [ Jul 26th, '12, 11:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can anyone tell me what type of butterfly and is it harm |
[quote="julia_bites"]Looks like a Sphinx moth, weather or not it is a problem you will have to google +1 That's what it looks like to me as well. Another site with some info http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05517.html |
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