{"id":1015,"date":"2010-09-22T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:01:48","slug":"cycles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/cycles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cycles of all sorts&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004\" style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1004\" title=\"M_caterpillar1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/M_caterpillar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"263\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch caterpillar on milkweed (host plant)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1007\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1007\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1007\" title=\"milkweed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/milkweed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milkweed plant \u201cgoing to seed\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I plant tobacco. I love it. It reminds me of growing up and taking family trips down I-95, seeing fields and fields and fields of this majestic plant with gigantic leaves. I&#8217;ve rarely seen insects on or around our\u00a0 tobacco plants; the leaves are sticky. And although I find the scent appealing, I imagine in the bug world there might be something off-putting about it. So,\u00a0 I usually don&#8217;t bother to check the plants for pests.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1001\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1001\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1001\" title=\"tobacco_budworm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tobacco_budworm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobacco Budworm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That all changed a few days ago, when I noticed these worms on the tobacco. I assumed they were corn earworms\u2014after all, they looked like them and were less than a foot from the overhanging corn leaves. Maybe they just dropped onto the tobacco from the corn leaves?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong. I was amazed to find I have tobacco budworms.<\/p>\n<p>A very close relative of the corn earworm, the tobacco budworm attacks field crops\u2014tobacco, soybeans, cotton (which, by the way, is planted at the end of the tobacco row). A common predator is the wasp. Host plants include beardstem, lupine, and sunflower to name a few\u2014all of which are present at our place (including the wasps!).<\/p>\n<p>Just goes to show:\u00a0 there are so many \u201cmini-lifecycles\u201d going on every day all around us&#8230;if we just take a moment to notice&#8212;like those pictured here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycles of all sorts&#8230; I plant tobacco. I love it. It reminds me of growing up and taking family trips down I-95, seeing fields and fields and fields of this majestic plant with gigantic leaves. I&#8217;ve rarely seen insects on or around our\u00a0 tobacco plants; the leaves are sticky. And although I find the scent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,98,99,35,18,19,96,93,47],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-budworm","tag-caterpillar","tag-earworm","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-milkweed","tag-tobacco","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}