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catawba worm trees advice **UPDATE pg 1**

Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:06 am
Posted by oleyeller
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:06 am
anyone tips with them? going to plant 5 or 6 this weekend from pots that are already about 6' tall. i have picked worms my whole life off grandparents trees. But about to get my own, have heard i may need to take worms off another tree and put on mine to get started, is this true? any help is appreciated

*UPDATE TODAY*

so i planted 6 trees the weekend after this post, havent done anything to them at all since, notice
a some leaves all ate up today and went out there and looked.. and all 6 are LOADED DOWN! To say im pumped is an understatement! Been in the ground 2 months and already bringing the goods!!
This post was edited on 6/30/13 at 6:13 pm
Posted by TJG210
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:08 am to
Do you mean Catalpa trees?
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:09 am to
Not seen worms in 20 years and there are trees all around. Good luck.
Posted by oleyeller
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:10 am to
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Do you mean Catalpa trees?


yes but, same thing
Posted by Nodust
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:11 am to
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have heard i may need to take worms off another tree and put on mine to get started, is this true?

It must be. Moms got three big trees in her yard and a few small ones. Never had a worm in 39 years that I know of.
Posted by oleyeller
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:12 am to
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Not seen worms in 20 years and there are trees all around. Good luck.


wow my buddy lives a few miles from me and he and his dad have a couple hundred and pull thousands off every year. last year every river trip i took i would just swing by his place and get some.
Posted by tenfoe
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:13 am to
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Not seen worms in 20 years and there are trees all around. Good luck.



Agreed. Fire ants are the #1 problem.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:14 am to
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Fire ants are the #1 problem.
Got plenty of them
Posted by Jester
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:27 am to
I had big problems with those bastards or something similar eating my damn garden last year. I'd come home to find a stripped plant and a mound of caterpillar shite.
Posted by ReelFun
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:30 am to
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Posted by ReelFun
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:33 am to
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But about to get my own, have heard i may need to take worms off another tree and put on mine to get started, i


that won't work. what you have to do is break some branches off of the one that has worms and put branch with worms in your tree.

I look all the time and hardly ever see a tree with worms.

Does anybody know what they turn into, what butterfly or moth?
Posted by Flair Chops
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:35 am to
we haven't had them in 15 years or better and we used to be overrun with em. i have no clue what happened.


we tried to take em to my great pow pow's and get them started, but they never took.

Posted by Jester
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:36 am to
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Does anybody know what they turn into, what butterfly or moth?




I actually think I deal more with cutworms, but I'm no entomologist.
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Posted by Nodust
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:36 am to


LINK
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Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:36 am to
Sphinx moth
Posted by tenfoe
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:36 am to
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had big problems with those bastards or something similar eating my damn garden last year. I'd come home to find a stripped plant and a mound of caterpillar shite.


Likely tomato hornworms. They can devour a plant in a day.
Posted by Jester
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:42 am to
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Likely tomato hornworms. They can devour a plant in a day.



That's the bastards! They're so hard to spot, too. You almost need to find their shite pile or find it on a half-eaten plant. I launch them bitches onto the highway.
Posted by ReelFun
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:47 am to
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actually think I deal more with cutworms, but I'm no entomologist.



I am pretty sure Catalpa worms only eat the leaves of Catalpa trees. If something is eating in your garden it is something else. like you said, cutworms.
Posted by BFIV
Virginia
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:54 am to
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Not seen worms in 20 years and there are trees all around. Good luck.



Agreed. Fire ants are the #1 problem.



I can see why the fire ants could wipe out the worms, but we don't have fire ants up here and I haven't seen any catalpa worms up here in over 20 years, either. Wonder what's killin them off?
Posted by oleyeller
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 11:55 am to
flair,

chickenman is the one with over 100 trees at his place and they stay loaded! i got alot from him last year. him and his dad have a hell of a setup!
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