Cheryl and Jolana, good suggestion, I was assuming it was moving! It doesn't look like a ladybug larva, but does look like a pupa.
Pupa:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/...
This is the larva:
https://www.google.ca/search?q...
Rick, yes I think it depends where you're gardening. I had no problem gardening more or less organically at our old home which was on clay (I amended it with composted manure from the barn). I thought organic gardening was a piece of cake until I moved to a drier area with sandy soil, and every veggie pest known to mankind (or so it seemed :lol:) descended upon the plants. In hindsight this might also have been partly because before we were surrounded by continuous corn.......
