Re: HYB: my update

From: StorYlade@aol.com

In a message dated 6/11/1999 12:39:01 PM Central Daylight Time, 
suttons@lightspeed.net writes:

<< Some pods on my MDBs have holes in them...as if an insect burrowed inside.
 >The holes are 1/8 inch across and perfectly round.
 
 I have seen ants do this before, and only on pods that were relatively close
 to the ground.  They usually destroy the seeds in the section of the hole
 but the other two sections usually are fine.  There is also a borrowing type
 of bug that I haven't been able to indentify that will burrow and coccoon
 inside the seed pod.  Most of the seeds will be fine in this case unless the
 pods starts to mold and ro >>
 
Possibly the work of an iris weevil?  When harvesting 50 plus pods a couple 
of mine would develop such holes.  At harvest time you will find a 'worm' 
busily eating the seed in the occupied chamber.  (I only have three pods this 
year!  <sigh>)

Check pods daily after browning.  They can split over night.

Betty from Boiling Green KY

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