Last night when I was watering my front yard garden, I found something strange on my Bangkok roses plant (Mussaenda philipica).
Since four days ago, I feel something should not happens on my plant.
More than 50 percent of the leaves disappeared.
Then I found the suspect last night... a huge worm!
The worm have a colorful skin, bright yellow with grey-blue and white stripped.
Look... compare with my pencil...
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| It's about 15 cm length! |
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| three "musketeers" |
I found two worms again this morning.
Looks... the new worms seen greenish.
My daughter said "How beautiful they are...! I want to know how beautiful the butterflies forward!"
Then she put the worms into a big plastic jar.
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| poor branches |
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| eating yummy leaves |
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| safe buds |
I hope the buds become beautiful "flowers".
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| safe buds... safe flowers.... |
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| safe leaves |
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| waiting for the bloom |
Ugh! Beautiful, but so destructive to your wonderful plants! My friend uses a hand vacuum cleaner to get rid of such pests. Not sure what he does with them. Linda
ReplyDeleteYes Linda. They are beautiful, but so terrifying. They held the branch strongly. I can took them from the branch, so I have to broke the branch. Thank you for stopping by.
DeleteWOW, those catterpillars are so big. I am just as your daughter very curious which butterfly will emerge ; )
ReplyDeleteHave a great day.
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Thank you Monique. They are so greedy. Maybe next I will find beautiful butterflies coloring my garden. Wow you can speak Bahasa Indonesia well.
DeleteTerima kasih.
Oh may those are HUGH, I would not like to touch them. Glad you found them...So they will not
ReplyDeleteeat your beautiful plants. Have a beautiful day in INDONESIA when you wake up. It is 12:50 p.m. in the afternoon here in Kentucky.
Yes Teresa. I'm glad that I found them early before my lovely plant exhausted. I really love this flower cause the named look like my name. Lol... Thank you. Have a nice evening
DeleteHello!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post and wonderful pictures.
I send greetings from distant Polish.
Lucia
Hello Lucja Maria. Thank you for coming by. Welcome to my blog. Sweet and warm greeting from Indonesia.
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