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Wed, Jun 15, 11 at 19:11
| I found this under one of the leaves on a Bhut Jolokia plant. Does anyone know what it is?
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- Posted by Spongey600 San Diego Z10 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 15, 11 at 19:41
| looks like it might be a cocoon of somekind! not 100% but thats what i am putting my money on! |
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- Posted by sworegonjim 8 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 15, 11 at 19:58
| I think it is from outer space; spores brought on a meteor from some far off planetoid. |
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- Posted by smokemaster_2007 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 15, 11 at 20:39
| If It was on a rock by a stream I'd say an empty Caddis Fly nymph case. The nymphs glue small sticks and rocks together to make their case/home until they turn into adults. http://web.flycraftangling.com/images/1/img_caddisflies_cased_caddis.j pg |
Here is a link that might be useful: Caddis fly nymph case pics
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| There is a pond about 3 or 400 yards away. No stream. My only other choice is some alien being from the planet Peppertron???? Do I squash the invasion now to save my pepper and the planet Earth or should I let them be and hope they have come in peace? |
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- Posted by habjolokia none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 15, 11 at 21:45
| Maybe early stage of a bagworm bag/cuccoon I would def get rid of it. |
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| I will be excising it tomorrow morning. |
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- Posted by smokemaster_2007 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 0:09
| I'd go with the bagworm guess. Scroll down the pic link below there is a pic thats very similare to your pic. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Bagworm
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- Posted by sworegonjim 8 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 0:23
| I think Smoke nailed it. Looks like bagworm to me. Good Job. |
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| OK, so I am gonna guess that this is a bad thing and I should get rid of it right away? |
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- Posted by smokemaster_2007 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 4:26
| Yup.No mercy. Actually Habjolokia guessed it , I just found pics of it. |
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| OK, I will be getting rid of it. Are they normal pests to Peppers? I dont see that mentioned anywhere. |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 13:03
| I ain't ever seen one on my peppers ;-) I only have experience with aphids, slugs, earwigs, tomato worms, and deer eating my peppers/plants. Josh |
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| Well, I pulled it off the leaf today. It almost seemed to be burrowed into the leaf like a Tick or something. I didnt see any reason to pull the entire leaf since the leaf looked fine and healthy. I am still debating whether or not to do something about the ants. There are two or three species at least. One is big black ones at least a 1/4 inch long. Then I have smaller black ones and some small red ones. The red ones are not fire ants....too far north. I am thinking about putting some ant poison down on the dirt. I dont really want to kill everything but I tired of the ants and I dont want them farming any Aphids. I think one of the dust or granual types would just affect the soil and not bother good insects trying to pollinate my blooms. |
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- Posted by habjolokia none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 16, 11 at 20:24
| Before laying down any poison, if the ants are not harming anything or farming aphids, leave them be. If they become a burden and multiplying out of control then I would sprinkle a pile of Equal or NutraSweet, I learned this is posinous to ants. |
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| Yah, I have been going back and forth on whether or not to lay down some poison for the ants. I dont think they are doing any harm to my plants and I dont see any aphids. But there are just a lot of them. We have a lot of ants around our area. The soil is almost all sand. That may be why. I just get tired of them being all over the place. Maybe I will try some of the nutra sweet to slow them down a bit. |
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| Bag worms for my money. Although most of those Google pics look different These look exactly like yours to me. http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/BagWorm on oakleaf.JPG Happy Planting, P.S. My apologies for the links. I don't know how to make live links like Habjolokia did, yet. |
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| Bag Worms is it. I am sure. That is the only one I found on my plants so far. |
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- Posted by Drakar2007 none (My Page) on Mon, Jun 20, 11 at 22:43
| I raised pine and fir trees and bagworms were a constant. I never saw one with twigs quite that big attached, but other than that it's verrrry similar. Looks like you already figured it out, though ;-) |
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