DrDoob
Well-Known Member
I hope I'm wrong, but my guess is that they were living in (on) the plant, but when you disturbed their home (IOW, harvested), they emerged to seek a new one. Which could mean that you still have eggs amongst your buds. I wonder if the water killed those (I doubt it) or removed them from the sticky buds (maybe?) - or if they will hatch and then those caterpillars, too, will emerge?
I'm pretty sure that's what happened. I hung them up for four days and every couple hours I was finding and killing them. A spider also moved in and had four or five in his web. He's already tripled in size from just a few days ago! I stopped seeing the caterpillars for about a day or so then jar'd the buds up yesterday. I haven't seen any in the jars, but at this point it wouldn't surprise me at all. There is no way there was that many on the plant or I would have seen at least some. I've been going through all the plants with tweezers and only found a couple. They must've come from eggs, there also wasn't a ton of damage. I only harvested 3/4ths of the plant and the rest seems good still too. But I did spray it with B.T. Drying it stunk up my house too much so I ordered another carbon filter and will make a box to dry the rest and hopefully contain any critters and smells.