Re: VINE BORER EGGS !! - Can you find them in this picture?
- Subject: Re: VINE BORER EGGS !! - Can you find them in this picture?
- From: v*
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:42:05 -0700 (PDT)
- List-Archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/pumpkins/> (Web Archive)
crap! I'm in real trouble. I can't even find the
picture! Score another one for the bugs....
vince
--- Brad2julie@aol.com wrote:
> Group,
> I remember when I was getting started,
> how tough it was to figure
> out the Squash Vine Borer moth and her madening love
> affair with my pumpkin
> plants. First of all finding a moth was a challenge
> and second identifying
> the eggs and their location on my plants was next to
> impossible! So one can
> understand my excitement when I discovered
> Warrior-T/Scimitar and its
> devastating effectiveness with my primary nemesis
> the (SVB). Have I ever
> said how much I love Warrior? I know, only a
> million times. Anyway, while
> in the patch the other day I was watching a female
> moth as she danced with
> death around my plants. As usual she was very
> hesitant to land on the old
> growth which had been sprayed. So with a sort of
> reluctant vengence against
> me she chose to lay her eggs on a tiny piece of new
> growth. After sealing
> her fate with a new dose of Warrior-T ( 14 days
> since my last application), I
> removed the new growth with the eggs on it and took
> a photo. There are two
> eggs in the picture can you find them?
>
> Brad Walters
> Greenwood, IN
>
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