Sunday, April 5, 2015

P. Tom's plum curculio wasp traps are in

Hoping to head off the plum curculio wasps this year.  The wasps bore holes in the peaches to lay their eggs and we get the happy surprise of a little green caterpillar inside every single ripe peach.  Cute, but not edible!

I didn't get a photo, but Papa Tom has caught two curculio wasps so far!  And a lady bug.  And spiders.  Who knew there was so much life going on at the base of a peach tree?

We're thinking an enterprising Papa Tom twin spent many a peach season developing curculio wasp traps.

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