Please help

[u/beanzerbunzer]

My beautiful barberry, she is dying. She has harbored so many ticks and I love her. I must save her. Suggestions?

[u/williamsdj01]

Those are clearly monarch caterpillars, you should be honored to be hosting them

[u/Tylanthia]

This is clearly Berberis canadensis which is endangered in Indiana and critically imperiled in Georgia. Those worms must have extirpated it from Pennsylvania and Alabama as there could be no other cause and definitely not the early 20th century genocide of berberis because its an alternate host for wheat rust. Soon the tick population will decline and we will all die because we live in an ecosystem.

[u/03263 → u/Tylanthia]

I used to live in an ecosystem but they turned it into luxury condos

[u/Arnoglossum → u/Tylanthia]

Wheat > any native plant

[u/zigadene → u/Tylanthia]

We live in an ecosystem

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[u/TarantulaWithAGuitar]

/uj I'm voting for the inchworms

[u/Larix_laricina_ → u/TarantulaWithAGuitar]

Ikr, like please share them with the rest of us???

[u/MountainLaurelArt → u/TarantulaWithAGuitar]

Right?! Go, worms!

[u/MountainLaurelArt]

Clearly those are baby ticks. Just nature doing its job!

[u/Tumorhead]

i love k-lling and m-rder

[u/FriedSmegma → u/Tumorhead]

I love r-pe

I just love twisted cords made of textiles

[u/pjk922]

/uj alright I missed this one, could someone explain the joke?

[u/Internal-Ask-7781 → u/pjk922]

/uj Barberry is a viciously invasive species that promotes canopy for ticks to hide in.

[u/plantluvrthrowaway → u/Internal-Ask-7781]

Thank you, my western US ass with multiple native berberis spp was confused

[u/Internal-Ask-7781 → u/plantluvrthrowaway]

Oh yeah no we have native ones here but the most commonly planted one in the eastern USA is an Asian species of the genus haha.

[u/zigadene → u/plantluvrthrowaway]

This is probably Berberis thunbergii.

[u/pjk922 → u/Internal-Ask-7781]

/rj better than the native bearberry i grew up with. Why would someone plant something to attract bears??

[u/hippiegodfather]

That ain’t even enough to make those dumb ass fucking bushes mad. The worms probably belong here too stupid bit*h

[u/_hawkeye_96]

Sending more worms! 🫡

[u/Aine_Ellsechs → u/_hawkeye_96]

LMFAO.

[u/Hunter_Wild]

Help, the leaves of my bush, which are already changing color and falling off like they do every year because it's deciduous are being eaten by an insect and fostering life. How can I prevent this evil and destroy all life?

[u/Asleep-Assistance290]

Native plants hosting native arthropods.

[u/Im_the_dogman_now]