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Posted: Dec 17 2007 at 10:41am | IP Logged Quote Leocea
Normally, I would never dream of killing a caterpillar. However, I just found one crawling across our kitchen floor. I think it was in some hanging plants that I brought in.
I looked it up, and we already made a cozy spot in a jar with a wet paper towel and some leaves. :-)
Well, the bad news is that it is a cutworm or saw worm, and it eats emerging fruit shoots/buds. They winter over as larva, so it could go outside now and be fine. BUT... The hanging plants were right next to my apple/cherry/pear trees!
I cannot in good conscience just put it outside, where it could multiply and cause problems with my fruit. My first thought is to relocate it, but I am concerned with putting this problem on someone else. I would not want someone else to have these critters eating their fruit!
So, should we kill it?
How can we do this and have it be a true science lesson and not upset everyone so badly??
We do not spray our fruit trees, so I guess we have already caused a problem. Now I guess we have to check our trees for these caterpillars.

Any ideas on doing this humanely, or an alternative that doesn't hurt anyone's fruit?

In Christ,

Leocea
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Posted: Jan 02 2008 at 7:19pm | IP Logged Quote Leocea
Well, we never received any advice, but then we sort of forgot about the poor guy. He was alive when we checked, but then was dead yesterday. I am sure he has lots of relatives out there, munching my fruit buds!

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