Pruning the Fruit Trees

Carol is teaching them the correct way to prune fruit trees. Right now she is working on a fig.
 All participants got a chance to prune a tree.

Tomato Hornworm Pupa

During Saturday's workday Wendy found 3 pupa and Mark found one. At first we thought they were luna moth pupa but after consulting the bug book in the shed we discovered they were HIGHLY undesirable pupa as they are tomato hornworms waiting to emerge.

If you want to learn more about tomato hornworms in all stages of their life cycle, this link tomato hornworms has great pictures and information about hornworms.

Notice the handle like thing on the pupa on the left. Hornworms

 have "handles" and luna moth pupa don't. Also, hornworm pupa are

 found in the soil and luna moth pupa are found in cocoons above ground.