help! little caterpillars hanging from my drying bud!

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #1

I have my bud hanging to dry and i check on it this morning and i see these super tiny (smaller than an ant!) caterpillars hanging from the bud on a spider-web like string. there was like 10 of them just hanging... i grabbed one and looked at it really close and i noticed it was a fucking moving tiny caterpillar!! does this mean i have eggs all in my weed? does this mean i cant smoke it anymore?!?! someone please help me =(

 

RawBudzski

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Oct 4, 2011

• #2

Take pix ! I wanna see this

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #3

alright i just killed the ones that were hanging before i posted this... so ill keep checking on it and take a pic if i can!

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #4

 

RawBudzski

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Oct 4, 2011

• #5

Oh No !.. Eww. What is that

How many have you found..

 

massah

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Oct 4, 2011

• #6

silkworm...can freeze it or heat it to kill it, or neam oil it(but its kinda late for that)...i'd just keep a close eye on it and watch for more

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #7

ive found liek1 5 so far

 

cacamal

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Oct 4, 2011

• #8

thats a bummer cause the will poop all over your bud. i would drop temps like recommended. good luck!

 

bryon209

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Oct 4, 2011

• #9

freezer kills em....butthen you have dead bugs in your bud have to go through by hand and pickem out

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #10

if i freeze it and kill them.. is it bad to smoke the tiny dead bugs? if there is no harm to me honestly i dont give a shit about smoking these tiny fuckers.

 

Stride

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Oct 4, 2011

• #11

I have these little fuckers on my buds too. Honestly I just pick them off with tweezers and I would say try to get all the bugs off but dont worry about the "poop" or eggs what you cant see wont hurt you. After your done drying put your buds in the freezer and then pick them all off with tweezers.

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #12

im just afraid if i freeze it.. i will lose ALOT of trichs

 

Stride

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Oct 4, 2011

• #13

Well as long as you put them in a ziplock bag you could always just smoke the fallen off trichomes as kief or even sprinkle them on top of your bowl. I dont think it would be that bad. Your choice though. You could also just do what im doing. Just inspect the buds THOROUGHLY and pick them off with tweezers.

 

Noballs

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Oct 4, 2011

• #14

Most of them will leave as the bud dries. They should be gone before you need to jar them.

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #15

so its this very common with outdoor grown then?

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #16

yea i went thru and actually found another fat caterpillar.. but the little ones hanging are so damn small its impossible to distinguish between a little fucker and some weed goodage haha

 

RollMeOne420

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Oct 4, 2011

• #17

fuck it dude just throw your shit in the freezer than toke up with those little shits lol. naw jk idk i would hand pick them out. never had that happen to me

 

iamgman

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Oct 4, 2011

• #18

I know on Survivor they eat worms... cooked tho. Why dont you just make edibles? Sounds delish. =D

 

gearaholic

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Oct 4, 2011

• #19

not a bad idea. but this is my first harvest and i am super surprised at how good the bud came out!! blue dream!! i gotta smoke it. hahahah

 

iamgman

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Oct 4, 2011

• #20

Yea.. I was just phukn with ya.. but you know that. I bet most outdoor harvests have something alive in there.. and I bet evryone has smokd a lil cat one time or a nuther.