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title: "I went to water the plants today and I watered the mystery plant. It…"
description: "I went to water the plants today and I watered the mystery plant. It was a grafted tangerine tree that died during the winter, but now their two stalks. On the…"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Boogaloo"
published: "2023-06-23T00:14:42.559Z"
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# I went to water the plants today and I watered the mystery plant. It…

_Publicado por Boogaloo el 2023-06-23_

I went to water the plants today and I watered the mystery plant.

It was a grafted tangerine tree that died during the winter, but now their two stalks. On the stalks were two giant swallowtail caterpillars, and I don’t know how to feel about it.

What should I do??? I don’t want to hurt them but I’m afraid that it’ll hurt the plant

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## 4 comentarios

### Edward comentó el 2023-06-23

I’d just leave them tbh.

### Rhonda comentó el 2023-06-23

Me too. That plant is a survivor. Caterpillars think it’s yummy so it can’t be doing too badly. Maybe coddle the tree as much as you can with tlc.

#### Rhonda respondió el 2023-06-23

If it was fungus gnats or something out to kill the plant I would think differently. The caterpillars will move along after this phase and there’s a whole lot of green and leaves in that tree.

#### Boogaloo respondió el 2023-06-23

Thank you very much :D I can try because I don’t want to hurt the ‘pillars, but if I see over two then I’m probably going to try to relocate them

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