what kind of leaves do caterpillars like?
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Wild grasses The caterpillars of some of our most beautiful butterflies love tall meadows. The gatekeeper, meadow brown and a variety of different skipper butterflies all feast on grasses. In fact, a variety of plants you might consider weeds are actually caterpillar favourites, such as dandelions and groundsel.
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A white woolly bear caterpillar, some believe, suggests a snowy winter. ... What's certain is that this fuzzy critter is looking for a winter home under the bark of a tree or inside a rotting log. In spring, as nature has it, the caterpillar will spin a cocoon around itself and emerge as an Isabella tiger moth.
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Common Broccoli Pests Cabbage worms – These pests are the larvae of moths and butterflies. You may notice white or gray moths fluttering around the plant—a sure sign that you'll soon have problems with their offspring. Cabbage worms cause serious damage by feeding on broccoli leaves. Hand pick as many as you can.
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Foliage-feeding caterpillars -- such as petunia budworms and variegated cutworms -- feed on the leaves and buds of petunias, causing jagged edges or holes in the foliage. If their numbers are high, leaf-eating caterpillars can defoliate entire petunia plants. ... Two to three days after ingestion, the caterpillar dies.
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Caterpillars. ... Caterpillars tend to devour any remaining flowers of the butterfly bush as well as the leaves and forming buds. In the spring the abundance of checker spot butterflies that appear and dine on the nectar of the butterfly tree are the source of the plant's name.
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Katydids look like grasshoppers but you can tell them apart by their antennas, which are as long as their bright green bodies. You'll normally find these insects in shrubs or trees in the garden, since they are leaf eaters. Generally, katydids in the garden nibble leaves but do not do serious garden damage.
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Leaf-Eaters. Caterpillars, sawflies, leafminers, beetles, worms and other insect larvae attack various species of trees consuming their leaves. The damage caused by leaf-eating insects ranges, but in extreme circumstances defoliation may occur. ... Sawflies are not actually flies but in the same family with bees and wasps.
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The caterpillars of a number of moth species will eat the leaves of apple trees. Distorted young leaves full of small holes may have been damaged by capsid bugs.
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With the exception of the pussy willows, the leaves of all species are long and narrow, with finely toothed edges and usually a paler underside. Upright catkins (flower stalks) carry numerous tiny flowers. The trees form large, dense root-mats on the surface of the soil or in shallow water and slow-moving streams.
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These caterpillars feed on a range of host plants, including birch, cherry, apple, oak, and even some coniferous trees like fir and spruce, and may cause damage to trees when present in significant numbers. White-Marked Tussock Moths produce two generations each year.
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Satin moths are easy to spot. The caterpillars look a little like tent caterpillars, with rows of white markings down the back and black bristles all over.
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Some types of furry caterpillars also look deceiving. For example, some woolly caterpillars look like soft furry worms. However, their bristles are a defense mechanism and can be spiky and sore. Although their 'sting' won't cause lasting harm, their poisonous stings can cause allergic reactions in some people.
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Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm, closely resembles its tomato preferring cousin, but shows seven diagonal white lines on its sides and a curved horn. Both caterpillars turn into large moths with four- to six-inch wingspans in colors ranging from brown and gold to pink and grey.
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Bald spots on trees are a good indication of walnut caterpillars in a pecan orchard. They prefer mature foliage unlike early season caterpillars that feed on new growth. They feed on leaves of pecan, hickory and walnut trees. The caterpillars' bright white eggs are laid next to each other.
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Caterpillar Food Plants Black-poplar (Populus nigra), White Poplar (Populus alba), Aspen (Populus tremula), other poplars and willows.
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Several species of moths and butterflies will lay their eggs on the plant, and the caterpillars will much away on the leaves and flowers. The Foxglove pug moth larvae eat the flowers, and the lesser yellow underwing the leaves.
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What they eat: Adults drink nectar from flowers. Caterpillars eat thistles, stinging nettles and mallows.