Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe #6, 1 by soulgardenlove

soulgardenlove wrote:
Night Bloom, how do you know all this?? your a genious... Well, I feel terrible about not knowing if those catapillars were friends or foes and since I have my two sons with me in the garden, I thought they were foes :( UGH!! They turn into butterfly's and I have all kinds of them flying around and no wonder duh, they reproduce, but I just didn't know.. I feel badly, but now I know and will certainly grow some passion vines for them to eat.

Ironically, my husband was in the woods today and he got this terrible sting on his hand. A few minutes later he saw the catapillar culprit and he came home and asked me if I thought that was the stinger.. ironic. I told him, I'm just starting to learn all about friends and foes and I would share some pictures with him.

I was at a garden center and saw a hairy little thing and I really do need to learn my varieties since I automatically think anything with hair will sting!

Susan

Here's one as an adult.



This message was edited Oct 1, 2005 9:11 PM