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Zurich, Ontario Canada

Last year my first flying egg planter showed up around the second week of July. If the larvae burrrrows into the ground over winter, why would I not see any when I am tilling the ground.How deep are these guys? is there any thing that will kill them before they fly?

6/22/2013 5:39:24 AM

Bethlehem CT

I am always wondering where all the insects come from too. Supposedly most garden pests overwinter in leaf litter and organic debris to try and stay out of the wind and cold.

6/22/2013 8:28:07 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Ohhh you might have seen them, if you looked really close. I have seen them after tilling. They are a brown pupa. I will post a picture of one in my diary. They have a fairly large range they fly also.

6/22/2013 8:36:44 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Another thing to note they hatch on a known cycle of 900 growing degree day 50 cycle. Some god gardening sites record this. What it is every day you record the temperature above 50. So today it is 84. That would be 34 growing degree day.

6/22/2013 8:44:47 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I calculated that wrong you take the high and low temp subtract them and divide by 2. If you are from Wisconsin or Minnesota here is a nice calculator
http://www.soils.wisc.edu/uwex_agwx/thermal_models/degree_days

6/22/2013 9:00:51 AM

Oak Grove, Mn

very good site linus...shows me at 580 degree days. I will have to check the number when i see the first svb.

6/22/2013 9:53:11 AM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

you guys are so smart!! How do you know all this shit??

Thanks

6/22/2013 12:17:01 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Years of experience...

6/22/2013 1:07:44 PM

43.841677 , -79.086692

I see them in the fall all the time when i'm clearing the patch out with my weed torch. They come squirming out because of the heat.

6/22/2013 5:17:06 PM

Zurich, Ontario Canada

Just imagining the sight of those little basturds squirm in the heat puts me in a good mood!!

6/23/2013 10:45:01 AM