Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
08 / 31 / 2018
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Season Photo Was Taken
Summer
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Marietta
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State
Georgia
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Posted by
joni10
Notes:
This caterpillar nearly decimated this sunshine ligistrum overnight. ItÕs just under a large water oak and I put the mulch around it a few days ago and the shrub was fine. What can I do to help the bush recover and do I need to use a pesticide to prevent more damage.
Comments
stone Master Identifier says:
Hawkmoths in my garden: http://gardens-in-the-sand.blogspot.com/2014/08/hawk-moths.html
September 7th, 2018 at 9:55am
stone Master Identifier says:
There are a number of related hawk moths that are hornworms when caterpillars. If it was munching ligustrum. It certainly wasn’t a tomato worm… Caterpillars are very specific in which plants they consume.. I very much enjoy the hawkmoths when they come out in the evening… Why not just allow the caterpillar to finish? I suspect this caterpillar is the privet hawkmoth: http://www.wildlifeinsight.com/british-moths/privet-hawkmoth-sphinx-ligustri/
September 7th, 2018 at 9:46am
Walter Reeves The Georgia Gardener says:
Yes, it is a hornworm Caterpillar. Why not just pick it off?
September 2nd, 2018 at 5:39pm