Re: HYB: verbena moth larvae in pods

Now, now, Christian. . .bugs (some) are a pain, but so are (some) people.
     Here's what I did when I gardened organically for 15 years. I bought a
number of good books on insects and read them as well as grabbed them for
reference when ever I found a cluster of unknown eggs. Learn to ID the good
guys, their eggs and their babies. Learn about the bad guys (and if they are
bad for what you are growing). I never, NEVER killed a bug nor squashed an egg
mass until I had ID'd it.
    A neighbor was complaining about "these little funny looking bugs all over
her turnips" and she was spraying them with a miserable insecticide. . . I
checked them out and guess what. . . they were the lady bug nymphs chowing
down on aphids!! She thought those little babies were killing her turnips but
it was the aphids doing the killing. . the babies were just trying to get rid
of them.
    Closing word. . . .ID before you kill. . .
Doris Elevier
USDA zone 7b Sunset 11
El Paso, TX
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Showtime Farm
  To: iris@hort.net
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: verbena moth larvae in pods

  On a related subject I found some eggs of some kind on the back of one of
my
  iris leaves today.  They look like a snakeskin or like the residue that's
  left behind sometimes when you try to pull up duct tape...  Dunno what they
  are eggs from.   Also in the same row I found some little black gnat things
  making themselves right at home.  Bugs are a pain.

  christian
  ky

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