Enemy worms
Aug 4, 2020 09:13:57 #
Not man's, lawn's or trees best friends, the grubworm and bagworm.
Aug 4, 2020 10:24:28 #
👍! I sense a theme here. The kind of large bagworm shown here have a weird biology. Adult females are wingless and they never exit their bag. Males fly, but they don't have wing scales.
Aug 4, 2020 10:28:46 #
Aug 4, 2020 10:44:30 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
👍! I sense a theme here. The kind of large bagworm shown here have a weird biology. Adult females are wingless and they never exit their bag. Males fly, but they don't have wing scales.
Yes, the life of these is interesting and weird.
Aug 4, 2020 10:51:44 #
kpmac wrote:
When I was a kid I would gather grubs for fishing. Nice images.
Thanks. As a kid I would chase down grasshoppers and if I remember correctly I believe I would look for tiny worms in the stalks of smartweed for bluegill bait. I also would gather up the few crickets in the basement I could catch.
Aug 4, 2020 14:02:15 #
JRiepe wrote:
Thanks. As a kid I would chase down grasshoppers
me too,there's not many fish the could resist a grasshopper!
Aug 4, 2020 15:34:56 #
JRiepe wrote:
Not man's, lawn's or trees best friends, the grubworm and bagworm.
The lawn grubs are easily controlled with Milky Spore inoculant or BT.
The bagworms biology can be used against it.
The female breeds, lays eggs in the bag, and dies.
Collect bags in winter and destroy for a few years in a row.
They must migrate as larva to repopulate an area or tree.
Bill
Aug 4, 2020 17:39:01 #
newtoyou wrote:
The lawn grubs are easily controlled with Milky Spore inoculant or BT.
The bagworms biology can be used against it.
The female breeds, lays eggs in the bag, and dies.
Collect bags in winter and destroy for a few years in a row.
They must migrate as larva to repopulate an area or tree.
Bill
The bagworms biology can be used against it.
The female breeds, lays eggs in the bag, and dies.
Collect bags in winter and destroy for a few years in a row.
They must migrate as larva to repopulate an area or tree.
Bill
I don't have grubs and fortunately didn't have bagworms this year but did the last two. I kept checking my evergreens and at first sign was going to treat with malathion.
Aug 5, 2020 10:00:05 #
Great shots..! The grubs are quite interesting and as said, make wonderful panfish bait. Bagworms found our bushes to be a convenient place to hang out and it is amazing how quickly they can destroy a shrub. Luckily we caught them in time and the shrubs were able to come back.
Aug 5, 2020 14:46:41 #
Every year, I get the grubs from the beautiful metallic green Figeater Beetle in my compost pile.
They do an incredible job of processing the pile.
They do an incredible job of processing the pile.
Aug 6, 2020 14:31:28 #
JRiepe wrote:
Not man's, lawn's or trees best friends, the grubworm and bagworm.
A great subject for one of those 1950s vintage Japanese science fiction movies that us old geezers remember, like the movie "Them" and "Rodan."
Aug 6, 2020 16:10:51 #
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