Re: slugs and worms, earwigs, black vine beetles.....

I think these swallowtail caterpillars were on my bronze fennel (I tried
using the fennel in a pot this year, but it's a BIT too large and its roots
crammed the pot in a heartbeat).  They're gone now or I'd relate the colors.
I had read the caterpillars liked fennel, but specifically not bronze
fennel.  Guess they're not picky when necessity dictates.

Regarding the suggestion that Leaf cutter bees were the culprits with the
euonymus and certain other plants: They sure went for the canna: nice neat
rows of holes straight across the leaf-almost humorous; and the euonymus
leaves are definitely scalloped.  Here I thought they were nice simple bees
doing their pollinating thing in my garden!  <diabolical laugh>  I've let
the earwigs off some of the hook.  However, I'm positive it is they who eat
the flowers.  It's very likely other damage I see is from the black leaf
weevil.  Thanks for these tips.  Possibly diatomaceous earth, "for crawling
insects," will handle the black leaf weevil as well as the earwigs (earwigs
are specifically mentioned on the package).  The guy at the nursery swore
this wouldn't hurt my toad babies, since the toads aren't insects.  Anyone
used diatomaceous earth for anything (it's been listed as a deterrent for
slugs)?

And also, while on the subject, has anyone purposefully inserted parasitic
wasps into their gardens?  It sounds like a reasonable thing to do.

Diann


-----Original Message-----
From:   PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU] On Behalf Of
Marge Talt
Sent:   Sunday, August 20, 2000 12:16 AM
To:     shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject:        Re: [SG] slugs and worms

Yep..if anything survives, it's sure to be a pest:-)

I've had some swallowtails this year, but not as many as in some
years, it seems to me.  I get both the black and yellow ones - love
them...never seen the caterpillars on my rue, tho...

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Claire Peplowski <ECPep@AOL.COM>
> Date: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:09 PM

>One wonders how it all
> survives but if it is a pest it is sure to return.
>
> We have had no "parsley worms" or the caterpiller of the black
swallowtail
> butterfly this year.  We always have them on the rue and on the
parsley, a
> colorful green, white, yellow and black.  Anyone seen them?
>
> Claire Peplowski East Nassau, NY 4
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