Egg cluster ID

Lindsaylew82 · Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:18 am

On a tomato leaf.

applestar · Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:42 am

Wow I can't think what it could be but obviously some of them hatched already.

I would have put the leaf in a jar with a paper towel rubber banded on top to see what comes out....

Lindsaylew82 · Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:21 am

It may be in the compost pile. I'll look for it tonight. It got about 2 minutes of soap soak before kid dumped it.

Lindsaylew82 · Tue Jul 08, 2014 3:09 pm

So I've been doing a little more looking. But I can't pull up the pic text on my iPhone. I think it them though, and I still don't know what "them" are... Bottom 3 pictures.
https://growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/g ... matoleaf2/

I'll check it out on my PC later!

applestar · Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:45 pm

I can't "mouse over" with the iPad either. Waiting to hear the "word"

Lindsaylew82 · Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:18 pm

Drumroll please.........

Lindsaylew82 · Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:25 pm

AHHHHH! Sh**! Army worms!

But there's a silver lining!

The dark ones we see there, they were parasitized!

Unfortunately, my lack of knowledge of them cause them to go in the suds. They weren't in there long... Maybe 2 minutes. Maybe some of the parasitized ones made it in the compost pile! It looks like a lot of them were infected. I feel ashamed of myself.

I'm starting to think I need to cut back on my interference in the bug battle that's raging out there.

Then again, I dunked about 20 stink bugs tonight and 3 egg clusters.