Re: CULT: ? identifying borers

In a message dated 5/26/04 11:36:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

> They are definitely borers, and they were eating an iris, but they are
> small - biggest ones are about 3/8 inch (1 cm) long, translucent
> greenish white, with black heads.

Hi Linda,

It sounds like iris borer damage, but by this time I would expect them to be 
larger.  As they mature, they have a pinkish tinge on their backs and the head 
is red-brown.  When we had dwarf irises planted under a red pine tree, 
another type of borer came down from the tree and also ate on the irises.  The tree 
eventually died.

Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zone 5 or 6

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