Re: CULT: Critters

Cats eat grasshoppers. You would need a lot of cats to make a deference.

Mike Greenfield
Zone 5b SW Ohio
redear@infinet.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: PATSY NORVELL 
  To: Iris Talk 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 2:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Critters


  Before the advent of BT, we had a dachshund who would accompany me to the vegetable garden every morning, nose through the tomato plants, pick off the hornworms, and consume them as though they were a real gourmet delight.   This is the only dog I have ever heard of that ate them.   Now if we could only find some pet that would eat grass hoppers, my iris would look a lot better.
                                                            Pat in Dallas
    
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Doris Elevier
  Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:57 PM
  To: iris-talk@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Critters
    

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Mike Greenfield <redear@infinet.com>
  To: <iris-talk@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Critters

  > Found new competition for the tomatoes, one of those big green
  caterpillars.

  Hi Mike:
      I know those "big green caterpillars" well! They are the tomato Hornworm
  and are the larvae of a rather large moth with white zigzags on their rear
  wings and orange or brownish spots on their bodies. They have a wing spread
  of 4-5 inches. I never found that they damaged the tomatoes, but they sure
  play hell with the foliage, stripping it down to bare stalks. Funny thing
  about those hornworms. . even my chickens wouldn't eat them! You throw
  ANYTHING to chickens and they converge on it like crazy. . .throw in a
  hornworm and they run towards it and then run away!! By the way, BT works
  very well on them. I have some excellent photographs I took of a hornworm
  parasitized by a braconid wasp. If you're interested, drop me a note off
  line and I'll send it to you.
  Doris Elevier
  USDA zone 7b Sunset 11
  El Paso, TX


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