Showing posts with label armyworm salad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label armyworm salad. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2008

EWE...a worm in my salad!!!

...and what makes it even MORE disgusting is the fact that I only found half of it. I am still gagging and drinking water by the cups full. Thanks to wanting to share everything with my blog friends, I ended up looking it up on the internet and getting even sicker to my stomach when I saw the pictures and read up on what kind of worm it was. Icky, icky, icky, ect.
***Amended: We had Costco enchilada's later this evening and they were packed with black olives (which I normally love) but I couldn't eat them because they looked and felt just like the worm. Sorry, Joy, but I won't be eating the olives you pick out of your food for a while.
Armyworms: Are worms ranging from green to black in color and have three legs in the middle of their bodies so they creep across a leaf. The brown dusty adult moth lays its eggs in bunches covered with white scales. The newly hatched worms feed in groups, skeletonizing the leaf. As the grow they move out and devastate a lettuce plant. They will feed on the crown of the lettuce plant.

And check out what my little protein salad enhancer would have turned into.