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Your comment brings back a memory of seeing a large horned tomato worm crawling across a woman’s back collar during Mass.  People directly behind her scooted over on the pew.  I was behind her but at a diagonal.  I could see the worm was going to have no choice but to crawl into her neck, so I reached over two people, pulled it off her collar which sent the people to the left of me sliding over into the aisle on the Gospel side. The woman felt it when the worm was removed and had no idea what was going on or why someone in the pew behind her had touched her collar, or were sliding over on one side and getting up on the other.  She scowled briefly and went back to her prayers.  Everyone moved out of my way as I slid over myself and exited the church via the door to hall and cry room.  The window was slightly opened in the cry room, so I tossed the worm outside.  It felt kind of cool and plump, squishy if I’d killed it.  It would have been disgusting to mush it on the floor, so I returned it to nature. 
When I returned to Mass, I saw my missal and Rosary on the end of the pew against the armrest and the space I’d occupied filled up.  The woman seated on the end shook her head when I indicated I’d like to kneel down.  I could see her staring at my hands, to her, obviously defiled.  I took the hint, my belongings, and moved myself to a folding chair in the back.

When I went to Communion, I thought how if it were the novus ordo, I’d be placing Our Lord in hands that had handled a tomato worm!  🍅 🐛  Thank God for reverent Communion kneeling and on the tongue!

Yes! Well, our surprises usually comes in our front yard. When we first moved here we put many different types of pumpkins on our porch for fall. We aren’t always the best at hauling our pumpkins off. Well, that year when they got old we just kicked them off the porch.   Behold! The next year we had a nice stand of volunteer pumpkins. We couldn’t bring ourselves to kill them so we put some mulch around them and nurtured them. We got some really neat pumpkins! We’ve done the same every year since and the pumpkins get weirder and weirder looking. Each year one of our children has proclaimed the pumpkin patch “their garden” which has worked out very well. It’s a gateway into their own little garden patch that they will plant next year. All of our girls (besides the baby) are avid little gardeners and they all began in a volunteer pumpkin patch.

Yes, it's any kind of ultraviolet light ("black light"). You can get them for pretty cheap on Amazon.

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You can get smaller ones than that too -- they just don't light up as much area, or as bright. That $13 one is a pretty good middle of the road option.

Our area has lots of scorpions -- they really glow in the dark with a light like this. We actually bought the flashlight for scorpions. Its use in the garden was an added bonus.

My oldest daughter has a pretty large garden (she does most of the gardening around here) and we were just out there a couple weeks ago picking off the tomato hornworms (wearing nice thick leather gloves so I don't have to feel the "squish" of the worms) and dropping each one into a bucket of water with a couple drops of soap in it (to facilitate drowning).

It's best to catch the critters before your plant is half gone. They are masters of camouflage though. Without the "blacklight at night" technique, it's hard to get them all.