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[Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca>]

Hi Derry,
Is this caterpillar green with some black markings? Is the adult a small
pale white blueish butterfly (daytime butterfly) that visits the currant
bushes late Spring?
Hélène, zone 3a
----- Original Message -----
From: "derry&bill" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:25 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] currant sawfly on gooseberries


> Pat,
>
> I've no idea about the pests in your area, but in the PNW currant sawfly
> (caterpillar) will eat the leaves of gooseberries overnight - it leaves
the
> skeleton only.
>
> Derry
>
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> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase
> wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
> Aldergrove,  B. C.,  Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> : We also have the gooseberries encircled by chicken wire,
> : because something ate all their leaves one night, when we
> : had first planted them.  They recovered.  It could have been
> : a groundhog, or a deer, or a rabbit.  But anyway, they are
> : safe (I hope) in their chicken-wire cages now.
> :
> : Pat
>
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