Can i remove caterpillars from white currants without using a pesticide

Yes. If they are sawfly larva they will strip the leaves off in no time.

Put on your marigolds and pick them off with your fingers.

Thanks took your advice minus marigolds.

Goody, marigolds were in case you were squeamish

thanks carol,for your reply,
its a small world, my wife margarets mother and all her family come from forres and findhorn.

Wow - small world! But how did you know my actual name?

Sorry it was your website,then the link to Findhorn press.
Some of the Robertson family still live there.

That's okay not really fussed - I became Moon_grower because of the book.