caterpillers on the plants

Little half inch brown worms with lighter stripes on either side and red
heads on the pickerel weed, iris, sweet flag, and even a couple of lily
pads. I knocked some off into the water but the rosy reds just sort of
sniffed and went away.. So I netted them back out of the pond. Anybody
know what they are? Or should I try to jar on the kitchen counter method to
find out? Thanks!

Pam wrote Or should I try to jar on the kitchen counter method to
find out?

LOL! By all means, yes! We slightly cracked ponders need all the company we can
get!


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

PS
Okay, actually, I do have a helpful answer - in our paper we have columns by
our local university extension agents and master gardeners. They usually have
an email address attached. Also they operate a clinic in our local library
with all their reference books at hand a couple days a week. That is where I
would look first for help if I didn't have my very own master gardener two
minutes away. Not that I'm all that dedicated a gardener but that is what I
would do if I was one...
The point being, and I do have one... is that locally you may have a hatching
or investation or plague of locusts or some sort that they would know about.
(And you can still put one in a jar with its favorite food...)


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

Thank you! It's so nice to know other mayonaise jar scientists are out
there.! I am not so active about it as I used to be. The children are
older so it isn't so much fun for them, and then there was the time I
hatched a huge egg sack full of baby black widow spiders in a pickle jar on
the kitchen table. Once they hatched I didn't know what to do with them,
but my husband didn't have any trouble at all.....and he asked me to be more
particular about my bug projects.

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Pam wrote Or should I try to jar on the kitchen counter method to
find out?

LOL! By all means, yes! We slightly cracked ponders need all the company
we can
get!


kathy :-)
algae primer
http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html