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Sat, Aug 18, 12 at 9:10
| Can anyone tell me what is causing these perfect round holes evenly spaced on my banana plant? Also how to stop it from happening?
Thank you. |
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| Hi,I usually hang out in the brugmansia forum,but lurk here occasionally. I believe that what happened to your plant is that while it was still tightly rolled up in the p-stem,or just as it emerged,before it un-furelled,an insect,probably a beetle or a grasshopper among others,bit one hole in the leaf that went through a few layers of rolled up leaf.As the leaf unrolled the hole spread out,and it looks like a bunch of different bites,but it is all from the same bite. Sort of as if you rolled a piece of paper tightly,then took something and cut a small hole in it,then unrolled it,you would see a bunch of holes,all in a row,that looked like something ate it,but it was just 1 hole at first.Hope that makes some sort of sense to you,I know it sounds odd,but,I'll bet that's what happened. Dan |
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- Posted by hoosierquilt z10a/23 Vista Calif (My Page) on Thu, Sep 6, 12 at 13:52
| ladybug, you don't say where you live in your GW Zone, but if you're in California, most likely this is snail damage. Very common here. Patty S. |
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- Posted by ladybug820 9 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 6, 12 at 14:39
| My zone is 9 Daytona Beach Florida |
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| Space Aliens. Gotta be Space Aliens. |
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- Posted by miketropic none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 22:47
| when you have holes in a perfect line like that is is usually a leafroller caterpillar. They get on cannas as well. just about anything with the big tropical type leaves |
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