unwelcomed visitor

Yesterday was very warm and provided an opportunity to work long on the yard. I spent hours at Mesquite Valley Nursery and brought home a number of new plants, including 3 new bougainvilleas. The apricot tree seems to be doing well and we actually have some apricots growing now. The orange tree continues to struggle. I dug around the base of the tree to determine if anything unusual was going on and found some of the soil was really strange – somewhat gooey. I dug up much of the soil and in the process found an ugly white larvae. I have no idea what this thing would eventually turn into, but I wasn’t about to allow it to grow any older. When I smashed it, white goo came out as if it had been filled with milk. Yummy!