Re: CULT: Borers or what?

Bill Shear wrote:
> 
> John, I'd suggest that these are just maggots of some rot-eating fly that
> happened to lay its eggs in a rhizome that had already begun to decay.
> Were they eating healthy rhizome tissue?
> 
Henryanner@aol.com wrote:
>
> I wish you'd let us know what they say. I've seen these little white
> wireworms once or twice on weaker plants.

Bill,

I was thinking the same, but thought I'd ask.

Anner, 

I will post the results. I droped them off this AM at county Ag and
should hear something today or tomorrow. Just FYI, these things seemed a
little less pointy than the wire worms I have seen invading my
strawberries (ask if that gives me the willies when I see one poking its
head out of a nice fat strawberry I am about to pop in my mouth...) 
Yuk!!!!


John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.

John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay) 
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
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