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By oval
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#370824
Anybody ever heard of the Sundew Plume Moth?

https://www.plumemoth.com/Buckleria.pdf

This may be what's eating my D. aliciae. When I brought the plants in a week or so ago, I took a caterpillar off that had crawled up a stick I had propping up a flower stalk of a different plant in the same pot. It didn't look like the ones in the above PDF, but it's probably something similar.

If I remove the plant from the media and soak in a bucket of water and then repot, would that drown the larvae? I've got no experience with this kind of pests... :|
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By MikeB
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#370845
Wow, I've never heard of this insect before.

To eradicate it, try some BioAdvanced 3-in-1 Insect, Disease & Mite Control. It won't harm your sundew and should render it inedible to the catepillars.

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