"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:04:35 -0400, "Ray Drouillard"
wrote:



So, I plucked it off, hooked the fence back up, and took the tomato
worm
and a grasshopper I had found earlier to the chicken pen. They were
all
sleeping, but my son's favorite chicken (the only one old enough to
lay)
was only too willing to grab the grasshopper out of my fingers.
After
that, I gave her the tomato worm. She had a bit of a rough time with
it. :-)

Yeh for the hen!

I found my first tomato hornworm of the season on a Devil's Tongue
Pepper, but it made me smile. It was covered in tiny white wasp
larvae.


Penelope

I wonder if you can buy those little wasps from an organic growers'
supply company or something. A larger scale grower would certainly be
able to benefit from them.

As for us, the few we find are simply turned into chicken food :-) I
found another yesterday. It was a huge, fat one. Poor little henny
penny could barely choke it down. She managed, though. :-)


Ray