How did I miss this guy?

[ContainerTed]

I couldn't believe the size of this monster Hornworm. Finally found it via its droppings. Tracing the destruction, it's almost like it had jumped from plant to plant or crawled past a lot of foliage and toms to find something more to its taste or something.

Seen here in my "booking" area, it didn't survive the transition to the paper wasp feeding area. This beast was a full 4 inches long stretched out and feeding on my Kimberly plant.

Ted

[Blueaussi]

Yikes! Where's Spiderman when you really need him?

Are those aphids competing with him for the leaf?

[Moonglow]

OMG! I haven't caught one yet, though I have seen droppings around here. I suspect the birds get them?

I'm glad you got it! Squish, squish, squish.

[ContainerTed]

Originally Posted by Blueaussi

Are those aphids competing with him for the leaf?

Maybe, but I thought that one was the whitefly residue, including dead ones. I've been doing preventative spraying every two weeks, and the next spray was due. I sprayed heavily to make sure that the beast didn't have any buddies. I pulled the hornworm off and then "remounted" it on a piece of foliage for his mug shot as I "booked" it in. As I stated above, it didn't survive the "arraignment".

The whitefly had almost become a cloud. I spray and they are gone for a week. Then, they show up again in a different place. I have three neighbors starting about two houses away and they're trying to do the "organic thing" and they are spraying nothing. Yes, they are a breeding ground for all the critters on your short and long lists of bad guys. And, it's like having a conversation with a doorknob to suggest something that will actually "kill" some of these plant destroying maladies.

Sometimes, I could just "SCREAM" !!!!!!.

Ted

[Blueaussi]

*raises hand*

I'm one of those neighbors, only I order lots of whitefly and aphid predators. Plus, I have tree frogs.


I love my tree frogs.