if a few tomatoes get worms, you can toss them to the chickens, and they’ll love the worms along with the tomatoes. Occasionally, we’ll get a bunch of hornworms in our garden. We just pick them off and give them to the birds. Vegetable ends that you might otherwise toss in...
Hornworm frass shows up well on this color mulch, too. Sparrows love to steal pieces to nest with so I keep a spare bucketful for replenishing. Savvy garden visitors notice the mulch and always remark on its texture and appearance. I appreciate the reflectivity of the chipped ornamental ...
The mealworm has four stages of growth. First, it's laid as a tiny white egg and then develops into a mealworm, its larva stage. Next comes the pupa, a state of sleep that can last weeks as it starts to look like an adult beetle. It hatches from its pupa, at first white, then ...
We started with brunch on our awesome patio, where we discovered the biggest, most evil looking caterpillar EVER had been causing our tomato plants to look leggy and bedraggled. Stupidtomato hornworm! Ben didn’t want to get stabbed, touch it, or have much of anything to do with it, so...
However, only a small proportion of those genes were differentially expressed (<10%) and these were not consistently up or down-regulated [66]. Similar conclusions were drawn in a study of metamorphosis in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta [67]. Differences in DNA methylation were not ...