Cleaning Caterpillars from White Jasmine Plants

Hi hiver friends, how are you? Have a nice day. On this sunny Sunday, I went outside to breathe in the fresh air around the house. Guess what I found? I smell a very soothing fragrance when I am around. I found my mother's white jasmine in bloom. It took me quite a while to see these flowers bloom, and unfortunately, I noticed that some of the flowers were damaged and had holes in them from being eaten by something. Not only the flowers are damaged, the young leaves are also many with holes. If you look closely, you will see who the perpetrators of the destruction of the flowers are. Yup, they are tiny caterpillars that gnaw at blooming flowers and young leaves.

There are so many caterpillars that I found behind the leaves on the petals of this white jasmine flower. They take cover under the leaves by making sticky webs like cobwebs to protect themselves from the sun. In the morning, they are very active in eating the leaves. You can see the many holes they have just made. Not only jasmine leaves are eaten by this caterpillar. The rose leaves next to them also look like many holes caused by the caterpillars.

Seeing this, I took the initiative to get rid of them from the leaves. If you don't clean it up right away, more leaves and flowers will be eaten by hungry caterpillars. I made sure the caterpillars that I was looking for had been thoroughly cleaned because these caterpillars had different sizes. That means they hatch at different times. I found about 12 caterpillars on the stems and leaves of my mother's jasmine flower. I transferred them to another plant for their new home.

Even though they can damage plants, I just move them elsewhere so they can eat and grow bigger. That way my mother's flower plants would be protected from the damage they caused and they would still have a chance to become beautiful butterflies. When they are big enough, they will become butterflies that will help pollinate the flowers my mother planted. I wish they would eat the leaves I gave them.