Brodybreaux25
Chameleon Enthusiast
Jackpot. I have been patiently waiting for more than 2 weeks to post this thread because I did not know what I had....
I was in my vegetable garden a couple of weeks ago getting it ready so I can plant my winter crop. I kneeled down to plant some broccoli next to my row of satsumas and I happened to look up at the tree and I noticed a blob of something stuck to the bottom of one of the leaves. I turned the leaf over and there are about 2,000 tiny pearl like spheres glued to the bottom of the leaf! I knew instantly they were egg but I didn’t know what kind. So I start looking at the other leaves and I realized every leaf of every tree has 100’s if not 1000’s of eggs stuck to the bottom, some have so many they are laid on top of each other!. There are a few different kinds of eggs but most of them are covered in some kind of silk. Since I did not know what they were I decided to pick some and put them in jars so I could see what hatched out. When I got home from work today I looked in one of the jars and there are TINY little catapillar everywhere! I don’t know exactly what species they are because they are so small I had to buy a cheap microscope just to see them. I know I have caught both cabbage looper worms and orange dog worms on those trees before so I’m betting it’s one of those. I’d bet I have at least 500,000 eggs in each tree!
I hope they are mostly cabbage loopers, my chams love them!
I was in my vegetable garden a couple of weeks ago getting it ready so I can plant my winter crop. I kneeled down to plant some broccoli next to my row of satsumas and I happened to look up at the tree and I noticed a blob of something stuck to the bottom of one of the leaves. I turned the leaf over and there are about 2,000 tiny pearl like spheres glued to the bottom of the leaf! I knew instantly they were egg but I didn’t know what kind. So I start looking at the other leaves and I realized every leaf of every tree has 100’s if not 1000’s of eggs stuck to the bottom, some have so many they are laid on top of each other!. There are a few different kinds of eggs but most of them are covered in some kind of silk. Since I did not know what they were I decided to pick some and put them in jars so I could see what hatched out. When I got home from work today I looked in one of the jars and there are TINY little catapillar everywhere! I don’t know exactly what species they are because they are so small I had to buy a cheap microscope just to see them. I know I have caught both cabbage looper worms and orange dog worms on those trees before so I’m betting it’s one of those. I’d bet I have at least 500,000 eggs in each tree!
I hope they are mostly cabbage loopers, my chams love them!
