{"id":81,"date":"2008-07-24T09:15:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-07-24T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T20:48:48","slug":"tobacco-bud-worm-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/24\/tobacco-bud-worm-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco bud worm and you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"petunias\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/petunia.JPG?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\"  vspace=\"2\" border=\"2\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/petunia.JPG?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"petunias\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geranium, penstemons and petunias sometimes become infested by budworms.&nbsp; Foliage may be chewed, flowers may open tattered and full of holes or appear dried up and not open at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tiny black droppings on the foliage are left behind. The striped caterpillar larval form of a native moth is a close relative of the corn ear worm, the tobacco or geranium budworm.&nbsp; Moths lay eggs singly on host plants.&nbsp; After hatching, the caterpillars chew fully opened flowers and occasionally dine on the leaves.&nbsp; Spraying early on with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/pesticides\/factsheets\/bacillus%20thuringiensis.pdf\">organic BT<\/a> is effective if done before the worms burrow inside the flower buds.&nbsp; Remove dried up buds and flowers that may harbor the caterpillars and pull up and destroy ragged, end-of-season petunias that my have eggs sticking to the plant remains.&nbsp; There may be two generations per year so preventative spraying with BT may protect established plants of geraniums or penstemon. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geranium, penstemons and petunias sometimes become infested by budworms.&nbsp; Foliage may be chewed, flowers may open tattered and full of holes or appear dried up and not open at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tiny black droppings on the foliage are left behind. The striped caterpillar larval form of a native moth is a close relative of the corn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/24\/tobacco-bud-worm-and-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tobacco bud worm and you<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,24,2,25],"tags":[530],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-gardening-tips","category-pests","category-plant-care","tag-plant-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jannelsonlandscapedesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}