mastermind7864
Treehouser
My uncle has a lovely Catalpa tree.......and wanted me to ask if there is any form of vaccination for the Catalpa moth. He worries that they will kill his tree.
TIA
TIA
Wasps that prey on moth larvae can be encouraged by planting flowerbeds and shrubs near the tree.
There is also a wasp that will kill them. Essentially it lays it's eggs in the caterpillar and when they hatch, they eat it from the inside out.
Yes that's the wasp i'm talking about. the flowers gives it habitat near the catalpa.
o and i found a chemical listed for the moth, but i aint gonna tell ya. Dale can live with leaves falling once in a while, instead of nuking the landscape to be rid of a non-problem.
imo.
I wonder why? It's not like they're honey bees pollinating the flowers.
The Tennessee Dept of Forestry's infestation division came out to Dale's today and helped the old guy out.
They drilled a hole in the tree and injected it with Bacillus Thuringiensis, or BTK for short.