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Thursday, June 18, 2009
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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WELL…..A pest I have been anticipating finally showed its ugly face today. THE SQUASH VINE BORER. ARG! I was mounding the last bit of dirt around some late to sprout potatoes when what I at first thought was a wasp flew past me. Well, something about the way it flew past me got my attention. When I turned around to look at the nearest pumpkin plant, sure enough, a vine borer moth was buzzing around it. It appeared to be a loner because I didn’t see anymore, though I know there had to have been. I took a glass jar I had nearby and followed the moth around for a little bit trying to catch it. After about fifteen or twenty minutes I caught it and sat the jar on some black plastic I had laid out to keep the weeds down. It got to be about 85°F and was sunny all afternoon so the black plastic was really hot, probably like 150°, that along with the jar being like a little greenhouse. That SVB fried! lol. It was a female moth too, I know because it managed to lay an egg a split second before I caught it.
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