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hardy catterpillars?
Hi All,
Thursday 24th October '03. Monday was cold, -2deg at night Tuesday we woke to icy roads, and garden sprinkled with ice. Cold all day, ice never made it fully off the grass. Tuesday night it lashed rain in the early part of the night, then temps plummeted to -4 and we woke Wednesday morning to a winter wonderland (other parts of the country have had 36hr thunderstorms, snow, sleet etc) temperatures got up to around 3deg during Wednesday and it rained again Wednesday night. This morning we woke to dull grey skys, it brightened up into a beautiful day, temps up to 12deg but its -2 at the moment and freezing hard. Last year our first frost was mid November! Why am I bothering telling you all this, well, Im wondering how the rotten little catterpillars that have been feasting on my (now skeletal) sprouts have survived all this cold, they're the green and yellow furry ones and there are literally thousands of them, I pick em off turn round and hundreds more appear, my chickens won't even eat them! I assumed the ice would see em off....was I wrong??..will they diappear over winter?? Shannie..Irish midlands. |
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