So, the wasps went away - where who knows - and now caterpillars have taken their place.
I was looking at my Yerba Mensa the other day and thinking how badly those wasps had ravaged that plant.
Well I was looking at it again just now thinking, wait a minute, something else MUST be going on here, the leaves on this plant are completely ravaged. First thought: caterpillars. Started looking underneath leaves and sure enough.
How do you get rid of them? I can't spray poison on the plant, it will kill the fish.
I guess I'm going to have to take that giant plant that is entangled in everything (which was the intended effect) and try to get it out of the pond so I can thoroughly spray it with poison. It's going to have to be out of the pond for several days to do that and then when I figure I've gotten all those nasty creatures, wash the whole plant with water and then put it back in.
One plant, right, how hard can that be? This plant has grown all over the pond, down the sides and onto the ground. It has shooters going all over place. It's a beautiful plant - or was until all those leaves got eaten up.
I can't put it off, those caterpillars are going to kill that plant if I leave it go too much longer.
57 hours, I believe it was, for the work week. Long week. Plus 5 hours put in at church this morning doing the rummage sale. The end of the sale was the hard part cause' had to take down all the tables, put them in a trailer and then put all the seats back into place plus fold up all the clothes and everything that wasn't sold and put it in the prayer room until they can figure out what they want to do with it - though I think they were talking about donating it to Goodwill.
Well, anyway. Trip to Walmart was in order. I am not going to pay $60 or more everytime that dog's hair needs trimmed. And trimmed it needs, badly. I went and got a pet trimmer for $29 and I bought 2 cans of ant and roach killer spray. That should take care of caterpillars, too, I am guessing/hoping. I have sprayed it on plants before and it didn't do anything to the plant, another good thing.
Umm, so, busy week, busy day already, more to go.
Later.
ben
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