Corn earworms

[the_macnab]

When you eat organic, locally grown vegetables almost exclusively at home, you quickly learn that some pests are just plain difficult to get rid of without massive amounts of extremely scary insecticide. Take worms on broccoli, for example; or, better yet, take the larva of the Helicoverpa Zea moth, better known as the corn earworm. These tenacious

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[the_macnab]

And your heart was pounding while you shucked those ears, amirite?

[griffjon]

Define "gigantic" here. My Texan sensibilities detect an exaggeration, but I may be wrong. Are we talking over 5 inches here?

[griffjon]

My worst organic-garndening squick was finding a large amount of big, pale spider-looking things in the stem part of some cauliflower; about half of which I'd already eaten.

I /still/, now like 20 years later, double check my broccoli and cauliflower.

[nunofthat]

Crazy!