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BombyxFrom the homeopathic pharmacopoeia
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Caterpillars - Bombyx in potency has been used to treat most caterpillars on most crops as a generic remedy. Both as a spray and in the trickle system it is effective. In both cases the plants become immune to caterpillar infestations. (3)
Bud grubs (496)
Processionary moth (133)
Winter moth (496)
Processionary Moth (496)
Tomato horn worm (1786)
Tomato hornworm, loopers, sawfly, moths, and armyworms. (1810)
Cabbage worms (1821)
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I treated 10 trees - 10 ml in 10 litres of water, 2 watering cans per tree in the root area ... there are approximately 100 trees on the piece of land, but I wanted to first see the effect for myself. After about a week, the caterpillars began to avoid the treated trees, no longer climbing onto them. Two weeks after the first application, this behaviour became more obvious: caterpillars that were thrown off by the wind and weather no longer climbed back onto the trees, and other groups marched back down off the tree they were on. In the meantime I watered the trees again with the remedy. I did not see this migration with trees that were not treated. http://www.narayana-publishers.com/Bombyx-processionea-Prozessionsspinner/Homeoplant/b8433(source) (133)
Watered 10ml in 10l. June 12: new leaves forming at the tips; no new infestation. June 27: new shoots not affected (496)
I treated 10 trees with [6x] - 10 ml in 10 litres of water, 2 watering cans per tree in the root area. ... there are approximately 100 trees on the piece of land... After about a week, the caterpillars began to avoid the treated trees, no longer climbing onto them. Two weeks after the first application, this behaviour became more obvious: caterpillars that were thrown off by the wind and weather no longer climbed back onto the trees, and other groups marched back down off the tree they were on. They just no longer seemed to like the taste of the leaves... I did not see this migration with trees that were not treated. (496)
I used [ ... bomber ...] with my Brassicas too, and the cabbage worms left them alone. (1821)
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Small green grubs had evidently been feeding on the rosebuds. The roses were sprayed several times with Bombyx. There was no more damage seen and the grubs stayed away. (496)
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... the plants were full grown, without any prior homeopathic or pesticide or herbicide treatment and the tomato hornworms had already started foraging on the plants..... We found within 24 hours the plants sprayed had without question a reduced number of hornworms while the remaining unsprayed rows were still heavily impacted by the hornworms. For two weeks the first row remained at approximately 75% free of the hornworm while the untreated rows showed a significant greater volume. At the two-week mark we began to see a return of the hornworms on the first row. We applied the Bombyx remedy a second time. We found the number of hornworms decrease on the treated plants. The results remained consistent for the first row at approximately 75 % free of the hornworms for the remainder of the tomato season.... We did not find dead hornworms on or near the first row of treated plants. We concluded that the remedy deterred the hornworms, however it did not kill them. (1786)
Significantly reduced the numbers of Tomato horn worms. Once sprayed tomato plants we also sprayed the pepper plants alongside. Kept them pretty much as bay. Sprayed again when numbers came back up. (1810)
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The true bombyx is not a very large caterpillar and is today known as the white cedar moth, Leptocheria reducta. It is about 45 mm long, dark brown, with yellow head and masses of long grey and black hairs, which on contact cause skin irritation. Clarke mentions that: "it one case a boy shook a large number of caterpillars from a tree on his naked chest. It caused an itching so severe, that he had to run for assistance. Then fever, somnolency, delirium and finally death ensued." (Clarke, 1991) (3)
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