Little worms in dill

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littke worms in dill
 

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Hi, welcome to the forum from Louisiana, glad you joined.

The caterpillars I'd find on dill were usually the larva of the Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly. That's not it, wrong colors, not sure which butterfly that would make. Since I was growing dill for the heads to make dill pickles and those caterpillars just ate the ferns I left them alone and let them pupate.
 

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purple carrot seed moth worm is what i came up with when i had the problem...

 

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:welcome from Central IL. Please put where you live with your avatar bc I will forget where that is when your starting posting on other threads.
RE; your worm...
 

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after the one year i think i did have some repeat the following year, but i don't recall them being a major problem the year after and i've not seen any this year at all. i have cut and eaten dill without even looking beyond a quick glance. perhaps they're not there or they don't add enough of an off-taste or texture i've noticed? one thing for sure, i'm not looking too closely in the past year because i'm not making pickles. i guess tiny worms floating around in a pickle jar might upset someone but give them a big worm floating around in alcohol and they won't phase them in the slightest...
 

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