Ok, Texas has something like 54 counties in severe drought conditions right now. Hidalgo county has had something like 40 days of extreme heat, with the heat index breaking 112 in the past couple of months. This is problematic under any condition for just about everything except for mosquitos in an old tire full of [...]
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I’ve done some sleuthing on the internets to determine (initially) what species these little buggers are. After a bit of searching through some visual representations and pictures of larvae, I have identified these buggers as tobacco hornworms (Manduca sexta), which are remarkably similar to tomato hornworms. They both look nearly identical except for the color [...] Arggh. I found a rather large butterfly caterpillar near the top of my largest tomato plant. He had gorged himself on the better part of one stem up top and eaten all the leaves off of it. After a few pics of him from different angles, I happened upon another of his brethren, though smaller, [...] |
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