spanworm

[Mary Jo Stevenson]

I have what I believe to be a spanworm and a multitude of eggs on a rose plant. I do not know if it is beneficial or detrimental. Anyone help?

Thanks,
Mary-Jo

[sandih]

Well, by doing a simple internet search I found that spanworms will eat the leaves of whatever host plant it's on. I would say that it probably not the thing you want on your roses. Have you seen the worm itself and compared it to photos on the internet..like this one?

http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/tfipm/spanworm.htm

Also note that it says it lays single eggs, not a multitude. The eggs could belong to something else.

Make sure the eggs don't look like this, cause that's from the ladybugs.

http://www.kunafin.com/ladybugs.htm

[Nadine]

sandih wrote: Well, by doing a simple internet search I found that spanworms will eat the leaves of whatever host plant it's on. I would say that it probably not the thing you want on your roses. Have you seen the worm itself and compared it to photos on the internet..like this one?

http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/tfipm/spanworm.htm

Also note that it says it lays single eggs, not a multitude. The eggs could belong to something else.

Make sure the eggs don't look like this, cause that's from the ladybugs.

http://www.kunafin.com/ladybugs.htm

You mean if the eggs look like the ones in the above link, leave them alone. Right?

Just a thought, if you do not know what they are, leave them alone and watch. We can learn a lot by observation.