More often than not, I find them in the envelops crawling around as I collect several pods. Now, the question is, how to get it out of the envelop?

Turn it crooked to get him to drop out? Nope, he just crawls in the other direction and finds a hiding place amongst the seedpods.

Creepy darn things.

And they sure do make a mess of daylilies in bloom too.

Wait...let me find a pic I took the other day...

I have never seen that! Yuck!

Bobbie, what is that daylily? I need to find something like that to cross with one of my patterned seedlings.

Is that earwig poop? Ick!! It's easier to call them pincher bugs. That's what we always called them when I was growing up. That way, I didn't have to think about them being something that would crawl in your ear!

Here is Utah, everyone calls sow bugs, potato bugs. I just call them rolly-poleys. No idea if that is spelled right! In California, we had actual potato bugs, which kind of look like a mutant grasshopper. My Dad is a rather manly man, and I had never seen him be afraid of anything. One time, when I was about 6, he he crawled under the house for something. All of the houses in our neighborhood had a crawl space under the house, and you had to crawl in their on your belly. I heard this scream, and my Dad came flying out of their backwards! I asked if it was a monster, and he said yes, it was a monster potato bug! It scared him half to death when he came face to face with it! Seriously, those are so much worse than pincher bugs!

daylily said:I have never seen that! Yuck!

Bobbie, what is that daylily? I need to find something like that to cross with one of my patterned seedlings.

It's a one yr old seedling blooming late which is why I took the crappy pic!

Out of Goldner's un nammed Rose Wow, I believe.

It has stippling (not seen too well here)

Bobbie, I keep forgetting to tell you how much I enjoyed the names that you gave your daylilies, and the stories behind the names!

Your potato bug looks like a cross between a cricket and an ant, on steroids that is! I used my ever faithful google and found pictures and a place that called them Jerusalem Crickets. It showed they were as big as a quarter. I don't blame you dad a bit. To start with, he may be like me, I'll face off a mad bull if I'm out in the open, but DO NOT put me in a cramped, tight, dark, crawl-in only place. I need AIR, and then I see that bug, I'm gone!!! Probably more of an excuse than anything, but it works. I don't do spaces lower than a tater or higher than a corn stalk. Just ask DH, he's tried for years and I'm not going up or down.

Mona, the ones we had at our house were way bigger than a quarter! I'd say more like a silver dollar. Or, maybe I was just a lot smaller back then and they seemed bigger? I'm sure they were bigger than a quarter though.

Natalie said:Bobbie, I keep forgetting to tell you how much I enjoyed the names that you gave your daylilies, and the stories behind the names!

Thanks Natalie!

After so many registered names, it is rather hard to find something unique and fun!

I have a few to register this fall / winter but haven't put my list of names to any of them yet.

I've been gathering names for a long time. I keep a list in a notebook for when the daylily comes along that matches it!

Is that earwig poop? Ick!!

YES!

Do you see the earwig down inside the throat?

I HATE THEM!

Great idea about keeping a list of names for the future. I enjoyed the stories behind each name, as much as I enjoyed the names! I often see a name and I wonder what it was that made the person pick the name. So many times, the names don't seem to fit. Knowing the story makes them fit - not that yours didn't fit!

I see the earwig now, down inside the bloom. I wasn't sure what that was!

Whew..... Just picked 31 pods and I'm wore out. The highest amount of seeds in one pod was 26.

WOW Cindy~~~ That is amazing!

The pod with 26 seeds must be a diploid. I have harvested three pods of a dip cross with Rose F. Kennedy and they all had about 20 seeds each. I am so accustomed to getting five or six seeds from a tet cross that I am still amazed, both by the number of seeds and the smaller seeds.

Yes Ann it was a Lily Munster cross. Seems that every flower I pollinated with Lily Munster is giving me a lot of seeds. Must have very fertile pollen.

I gathered about 75 pods today. This is the last big group I will get. I may have 20 pods left to get in a few days. So far, not counting todays pods, I have put 10,297 seeds into my fridge. I know of no other way to say how much I love growing daylilies and then acting like a really big, really really big fat butted polinating fool of a bumble bee!!!

Mona!!! That was so funny!!

I'm still waiting on my four pods to be ready! Yes, just four of them!! What a rotten year! Good thing I'm still planting my seeds from last year, and even have enough extras to send to my Dad!

Cute Mona