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Attracting Catalpa Caterpillars: Sell Caterpillars with Trees

Catalpa caterpillars (fish bait) come from sphinx moth eggs. Sell a few caterpillars with each tree; buyers let them feed and pupate in soil, "seeding" the tree for future generations.

About Gardening: Saving Mature Catalpa from Borers, Drought, and Age; Tent Caterpillars in High Trees: Safe and Effective Control; Massive Webbing in Tree: Tent Caterpillars, Not Spiders; Growing Catalpa Trees from Seed: Stratification and Container Management; Catalpa Near New Pavement: Monitor for Root/Canopy Conflict; Forest Tent Caterpillars Defoliating Oaks in Manitoba; Identifying a Tree with Pea-Pod Seedpods and Fan-Shaped Leaves; Identifying a Mystery Tree: Catalpa or Paulownia?; The Catalpa Tree: Messy Magnificence and a Woodcarver's Dream; Attracting Catalpa Worms for Fishing Bait

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