Hello, pious little predator
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Hello, pious little predator
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Hello, pious little predator
This must be one of the babies that hatched from the ootheca on my thai basil a little while back
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This must be one of the babies that hatched from the ootheca on my thai basil a little while back
@MLE_online Have you ever seen one fly? It’s so weird
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@MLE_online Have you ever seen one fly? It’s so weird
@chrishuck No, but I have seen them run very fast, and that's also weird
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Hello, pious little predator
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Hello, pious little predator
@MLE_online ooh, jealous! I used to have those in my garden. They did a great service and my citrus has been doing much better than in previous years as a result, but I haven't seen any in the last couple of years. Maybe they ate everything and moved on to greener pastures
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@MLE_online ooh, jealous! I used to have those in my garden. They did a great service and my citrus has been doing much better than in previous years as a result, but I haven't seen any in the last couple of years. Maybe they ate everything and moved on to greener pastures
@mathaetaes I don't know where mine came from, but they just arrived one year, and they've been laying eggs each year for three or four years now
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@mathaetaes I don't know where mine came from, but they just arrived one year, and they've been laying eggs each year for three or four years now
@MLE_online I've only seen an ootheca once or twice in my yard - both times on the ground and empty, so I'm not sure if they hatched here or if they were brought in by a bird or something.
I had a bunch of them one year (or maybe the same one that was just really bad at hiding, and also really mobile?), which was great because I had a real leaf miner and aphid problem. I think they gorged themselves on the bugs then moved on.
Fortunately, the pests haven't come back either - at least not in any real numbers - but it was nice to know I had my own pest control in place keeping the numbers down.
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@MLE_online I've only seen an ootheca once or twice in my yard - both times on the ground and empty, so I'm not sure if they hatched here or if they were brought in by a bird or something.
I had a bunch of them one year (or maybe the same one that was just really bad at hiding, and also really mobile?), which was great because I had a real leaf miner and aphid problem. I think they gorged themselves on the bugs then moved on.
Fortunately, the pests haven't come back either - at least not in any real numbers - but it was nice to know I had my own pest control in place keeping the numbers down.
@mathaetaes There's still two empty ones adhered to the eaves of my house. There was an empty one on my rosemary bush for the last year, but I trimmed that branch off a couple months ago. I carefully peeled the one off of my basil plant and set it aside after it was empty. I think the gardeners blew it away though. There are probably others hiding elsewhere here
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@mathaetaes There's still two empty ones adhered to the eaves of my house. There was an empty one on my rosemary bush for the last year, but I trimmed that branch off a couple months ago. I carefully peeled the one off of my basil plant and set it aside after it was empty. I think the gardeners blew it away though. There are probably others hiding elsewhere here
@MLE_online Enjoy your own private security. Now would be a great time to plant berries - take advantage of the free security! I can never grow them because they get savaged by pill bugs and earwigs long before I get to them.
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