RE: Re: borer at this time of year? pupae

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• To: i*@yahoogroups.com
• Subject: RE: [iris-species] Re: borer at this time of year? pupae
• From: "skyland 1" l*@hotmail.com
• Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:14:06 +0000

Its a shiny and brown capsule about an inch long. It is tapered at the end.  
Does seem a bit short for a large borer larva, but I guess it contracts 
itself. I would love to see the eggs and moth of the durn thing.
Laetitia


>From: Margaret Boehm <mmboehm@optonline.net>
>Reply-To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
>To: iris-species <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [iris-species] Re: borer at this time of year? pupae
>Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:56:46 -0400
>
>Sandy,
>
>I know about instars and pupae but have never seen a size description of
>the borer's pupae.  Sometimes I find what I would consider rather large
>pupae, maybe two joins of my little finger long, and brown, in the soil
>near irises where I've had borer damage.  They seem too large for the
>size of the moth, so perhaps they are not the borer's pupae.  Could you
>tell me just what the pupae looks like?
>
>Margaret Boehm
>




 
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