AusBonsai

Hi all

Just got back from holidays and found these guys munching away on an oak. Does anybody know what they are?

Don't know name but they look like what I get often - spray a bit of Dipel or Pyrethrum. Or just squish them all - they not stinging are they?

they are called "looper worms"

Dipel will get rid of them as will cutting them in half with scissors
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Ken

Thanks for that.

they are called "Looper Worms" and are the larve of a Moth.
discussed here a few years ago
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4317#p48460

Dipel is the produce to control them if you need or just pick them off. Cutting them in 1/2 works too

Ken

kcpoole wrote:they are called "Looper Worms" and are the larve of a Moth.
discussed here a few years ago
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4317#p48460

Dipel is the produce to control them if you need or just pick them off. Cutting them in 1/2 works too

Ken

lol, I just got that. At first I thought Ken was showing signs of dementia, then the penny dropped. Funny, Ken.

bonsaibuddyman wrote:

kcpoole wrote:they are called "Looper Worms" and are the larve of a Moth.
discussed here a few years ago
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4317#p48460

Dipel is the produce to control them if you need or just pick them off. Cutting them in 1/2 works too

Ken

lol, I just got that. At first I thought Ken was showing signs of dementia, then the penny dropped. Funny, Ken.

Bugger I posted in the wrong thread and wondered why I could not find it
Must be getting old

Ken

the irony....okay... I was looking way far into this.... I assumed this was in reference to the movie 'looper', whereby bruce willis from the future goes back in time to repeat the same events blah blah blah. I assumed it was a cryptic sense of humour.