Brad and Janie’s Blog

August 13, 2009

Bugs

Filed under: garden, gross — bradandjanie @ 10:15 pm

I find a lot of bugs in the garden.

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There was a hole in one of our squash.  When I cut it open, I found this guy inside:

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Later, while picking tomatoes, I found this caterpillar:

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I put it in a jar for safekeeping until I could check the internet to see if it was a tomato-eater.  Then I found this one:

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According to the internet, they’re both tomato hornworms.  The second caterpillar is covered with parasitic wasp cocoons.  The wasps will eat the caterpillar when they emerge from their cocoons.  The internet recommends I leave the wasp-infested caterpillar in the garden so the wasps will kill other hornworms when they hatch.  Go wasps!

Tomatoes

Filed under: done!, garden — bradandjanie @ 9:58 pm

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Janie and I got back from Spain today and found lots of ripe tomatoes in the garden.

August 2, 2009

Snails

Filed under: garden — stewartparis @ 3:16 pm

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Black Swallowtails

Filed under: garden — stewartparis @ 3:12 pm

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Yesterday I found this butterfly in the garden.

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Today I found this caterpillar.  According to the internet, they’re both Black Swallowtails.

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