Caterpillars on my Dill

[Steve Peek]

[Glenna Rose]

The often-hated scrub jays keep mine non-existent. Love those birds. They find a nest and it disappears.

One day when taking in groceries, I noticed a scrub jay was flying up to the overhang then going back to the fence, sitting there for a minute or so, then back up. I just watched until he was done and went over to see what he was eating. There were fragments of paper-wasp nests all over the ground! After that, whenever I have uncovered a wasp nest, I exit, leaving it exposed; the next day all traces of it are gone. That applied even to the one I exposed and was going to videotape the next morning while it was cool before the wasps were active; oh, well, no videotape but no wasps either!

I rarely have any wasps around while others in the area are plagued with them. Most folks dislike the scrub jays but, just for the wasp control alone, I love them!

Glenna

[Omelet]

Cool. :-)

We have Stellar Jays around here.

[EV]

We have lots of Ichneumon wasps which are the man parasite in this neck of the garden. I don't tend to interfere unless the balance is way out of kilter. Most years things are in balance.

Thanks. It's still pupating. It's one of the brown type EBS chrysalids.