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| I have some hot pepper plants and I find every once in a while a pod with a hole in it - as in the photo.
I did open this pepper up ? and I found the culprit. I have two mug shots of it - one it is curled up in a circle by the pepper, and the other it's making a run for it - I blew up the photo. It has many tiny legs- and a caterpillar like head clearly for eating. It's only 1 CM long. maybe 15 bubble like parts/ribs to it's body, it can curl up into a circle or it runs flattened out. I would love to know what it is- and then what I can do to get rid of these pests - OR lure them to something else that might make them happy. Thoughts ? Thanks in advance. I hope my short term memory affords me the chance to check back on this post in the next days :) The peppers - the pods this thing has been getting into ? have black stuff inside. |
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| right under the box you initially typed in it says: Check here if you would like post replies emailed to you. Please note that you must enable this feature on your Preferences page by checking off 'Allow other users to send you email' ==>> if you set that all up.. you dont have to rely on 'remembering' to check back ... ken ps: it also said it right under the box i typed in ... |
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| That Black Cutworm sure looks like the culprit. I wonder how to rid myself of it I'll look into it. I didn't see the chomper head on the images at images.google.com but sure looks like it thanks ron and thanks ken for tip on email alerts. |
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| http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/agrs115.pdf See this link. It is a free, online publication from Penn State about vegetable gardening in Pennsylvania. Look up peppers and it shows european corn borer as doing that damage. The book is great. |
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| Thanks Kimpa |
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