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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a
Posts: 626
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Went away for a few days and came home yesterday to find a badly wilted Cherokee Chocolate plant. Yanked the plant today, since it seemed hopeless, and found that an enormous larva had eaten half the roots! I'm guessing it's a cicada larva; I found a maroon-colored casing nearby.
Any idea how to kill its friends before they take out the rest of my plants? BT? GrubEx? Here's a photo of the nasty critter, taken just before I sliced it in two ( ![]() |
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