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RE: Weird Worm with lotsa friends

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That's disgusting!  Nature red in tooth and claw...

-BT

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lon J. Rombough [SMTP:lonrom@hevanet.com]
> Sent:	Monday, August 30, 1999 10:09 PM
> To:	Square Foot Gardening List
> Subject:	Re: Weird Worm with lotsa friends
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> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> You found some tomato hornworms covered with the cocoons of a parasitic
> wasp
> that had laid eggs.  The larve ate the inside of the caterpillar,
> carefully
> keeping it alive until it was time to pupate.  Then they moved out and
> spun
> their cocoons on the outside, leaving the caterpillar to die.  Let them
> hatch and you will have more wasps to keep the hornworms under control.
> ----------
> >From: "...Charlie..." <csimpson@preferred.com>
> >To: "Sqft" <sqft@listbot.com>
> >Subject: Weird Worm with lotsa friends
> >Date: Mon, Aug 30, 1999, 6:45 PM
> >
> 
> >Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> >This morning I found two very large (2 inches or so) nearly dead or dead
> >green worms covered with dozens of small oval white objects (Eggs?)on my
> >tomato plants. What are they?.
> >
> >Charlie
> >
> >
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