Help, please!

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I have been absent from LJ for quite a while, having spent most days in or around my pool, enjoying the awesome hotness of August. Now summer has left with a bang and swapped with an early autumn, and I went in my back garden, to check if everything is in good order. Well, it isn´t, because box tree moths´ caterpillars have eaten up big parts of my boxwood hedge. At first I thought that spiders had weaved in the boxes, but then I found black/yellow critters in the middle of those weaves, eating up leaves and even the bark. Yesterday morning I went on a killing spree, equipped with an enormous pump sprayer filled with what should kill those damn caterpillars immediately the moment they come in contact with the poison. Should, because I found a few dead ones next day, but most of those critters were still happily munching what was left of the box leaves. If I don´t get a grip on the plague as soon as possible, I´ll have to dig out what is left of a 30 year old hedge, and 15 metres of it, to make matters worse! Tomorrow a trip to the garden center is on the agenda, to find a new treatment, but I am open to suggestions of how to get rid of those bloody creatures!

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[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

Take one of the creatures to the garden center - maybe the staff will be able to identify it and point you in the right direction :)

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I was able to identify the culprit, but the plant protection products are rather poisonous...I wish there was an alternative method of dealing with those critters!

[katzastrophe.livejournal.com]

Neem Produkte? Sind umweltschonend und angeblich wirksam gegen viele Schädlinge.

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Hab es einmal benutzt gegen Dickmaulrüssler. Erfolg: null.