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By Sunbeam

West Midlands, United Kingdom

Caterpillars on strawberry leaves! Help! leaves on strawberries were curling and when I looked there was a caterpillar inside on the leaf with a sort of "web" round it - what can I use to get rid of them and what are they? All the insecticides I've got are only for ornamentals




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Cut off the leaves if there are too many cocoon caterpillars. It is only April and they will grow more or use one of those kitchen wet wipes or a baby wipe and pick off the critters by hand. To be honest, caterpillars are quite benign on Strawberries - vine weevil larvae are the real pest.

17 Apr, 2014

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