HELP! Caterpillar infestation, bud rot! Neem ineffective

[Rugar89]

@Willd From my Journal. My thoughts on what I think happened.

Rugar's World: Operation Adoption Services

@arpeggio We all have the same thing in common. Were all from SoCal (including a friend of @Trav that he mentioned in the other thread with the same problem) We all have been infested by Caterpillars that were seen on the same day. We all have bud rot. It rained in SoCal the day we all seen this happening. My guess is that the caterpillars have been eating away at the buds from the inside out so we never knew we had a problem, or ever seen them. Then it rained here really hard on Thurs. or…