Hi, thanks for reading this! Help, please! Imagine my surprise seeing this critter, squash-borer, when searching for the whitish, small grub-like/maggot-like bug that has about destroyed the bulb/roots of all types/sizes of our iris. First time I have ever seen this happen. Could it be the same critter? I do not use pesticides, FYI, we build and make use of ingredients in the mix we create using equal parts of organic topsoil, mushroom compost, composted black Kow/or other cow manure, and peat moss. It’s always a success, and is as organic as I can establish. Part of the reason is because for 3 years now, I have devoted our former-horse farm’s pastures to an organic pollinators’ paradise, after observing how well the Monarch Butterflies’ native Common Milkweed was growing wild here each year; we now allow it grow as need-be before mowing it down after the MB migration in October. I have been wild-rearing them from eggs, a few dozen at a time, May-October, to contribute to their welfare, since as we know they are almost extinct, and our farm’s location, and all of N. C., is part of the great annual fall migration to Mexico. Thanks again, will keep reading into your files for another answer but they look just like them. Best regards, stay safe, from the Piedmont, of N. C.
Hi, thanks for reading this! Help, please! Imagine my surprise seeing this critter, squash-borer, when searching for the whitish, small grub-like/maggot-like bug that has about destroyed the bulb/roots of all types/sizes of our iris. First time I have ever seen this happen. Could it be the same critter? I do not use pesticides, FYI, we build and make use of ingredients in the mix we create using equal parts of organic topsoil, mushroom compost, composted black Kow/or other cow manure, and peat moss. It’s always a success, and is as organic as I can establish. Part of the reason is because for 3 years now, I have devoted our former-horse farm’s pastures to an organic pollinators’ paradise, after observing how well the Monarch Butterflies’ native Common Milkweed was growing wild here each year; we now allow it grow as need-be before mowing it down after the MB migration in October. I have been wild-rearing them from eggs, a few dozen at a time, May-October, to contribute to their welfare, since as we know they are almost extinct, and our farm’s location, and all of N. C., is part of the great annual fall migration to Mexico. Thanks again, will keep reading into your files for another answer but they look just like them. Best regards, stay safe, from the Piedmont, of N. C.