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We found them again this year . We lost a plant or two last year to them and were waiting for them to show up.. We had just said.. Hey, no sign of our green friends yet.. a little early as the next morning the tip top of a green pepper was cleaned off and just a few tomato leaves. We found about 10 and after a powder dusting, we found more that had dropped. We throw them over our fence to an empty dirt lot.. wonder if they can make it back to our greenery?? anyone know? My son just told me he saw about 8 on the patio in the afternoon.. so we need to recheck for eggs and more of the buggers. What a pain. I hate that they can do so much damage so fast and in a small garden like ours, we would have little left. Ironically, the green pepper we got about 10 small peppers off of this year was the plant they ate last year and the first one we found them on this year.

It's a leaf-roller. In other words, one of the many kinds of caterpillars. Because you have only a few, squish it.

Did this guy make threads around the leaf to hold it closed? Found some Canna leaves like that yesterday. Inside each was a little greenish caterpillar, lots of poo, smelly. Lesser canna leafrollers I think since sources I found said greater canna leafrollers cut the leaves before rolling them. I don't usually interfere but I got involved in this one for sure. From what I can discern with the help of the handy-dandy WWW, yellow sulphur larvae will munch a bit on leaves but they don't roll them up. Lesser leafrollers are not attractive, IMO, and not why I have the Cannas. The leafrollers have no purpose except to eat Cannas, as far as I can tell. The link below is informative but I'm very disappointed in the control info. It took 5 minutes to remove the affected leaves and eradicate the munchers. Can't imagine poisoning the yard over something so trivial, easy to find, and eradicate. Here is a link that might be useful: NC State info sheet