Stinking catepillars!

[txwineguy]

Found these little buggers on the vines, after they ate 3 of them! I guess a little BT will do the trick?

 

[grapeman]

The pictures aren't very good to tell what they are so I have no idea how many there would be in the area. How many vines do you have? If only a few, I would just pick them off and step on them.I wouldn't even bother with the BT unless you expected there to be a lot more of them.

 

[TxBrew]

They can be a pest, we had them eat almost an entire tomato crop quickly.

Where are you located txwineguy?

 

[txwineguy]

We found out the little boogers are a type of moth. Collected what I could and sprayed w/ BT just for good measure. We have 12 vines and 4 or 5 eaten. Hopefully they will come back. This is just a test run, seeing what I can produce before going a lot bigger next year. Have about 4 or so acres to play with. And were located just north of Houston. Crosby/New Caney area.