The Tropical Fruit Forum

First look for aphids inside the rolled leaves, then give it a shoot of nitrogen at least.

Next time: caught and identify first, smash later. Your only sample is probably unidentifiable at this moment, so you'll never know if it was the real stuff or a similar native species.

Is a very good candidate also...

No need to kill it. This caterpillar is clearly different from the Citrus eating species of Papilio. Definitely neither cresphontes nor thoas or aegeus fit. I did some research and it seems that European swallowtail is present in all Northern Hemisphere including also USA, therefore: Papilio machaon.

In America will feed on some wild Asteraceae (Petasites, Artemisia) and Apiaceae, and can eat also Ruta. No problem with any of those (Here are my free poisonous Hogweed, take all you can eat, thanks).

You can put it in a quiet box with some branches to pupate and wait.

If you provide your pond with this contaminated underground water, you'll probably kill the trouts

You need to make this water analyzed looking for metals if you plan eat this fishes

Temptatively, reminds me a forgotten Trillium bulb. I don't see any cotyledon so, probably not coming from those seeds. Mature Musa seeds are big, glossy and black in any case. Not like yours

If not Trillium, some Araceae would be my second option. And a mutated dicot, the third.

Lilium martagon is not like those and Fritillaria is unlikely. Trillium starts with a one leaflet phase that is not seem in the photos. Maybe Araceae with compound leaves like Amorphophallus should deserve a higher position in the rank of candidates. They start often with five leaflets but the number of leaflets in your plants could increase in some weeks

There are three kinds of fruit thieves. 1) People picking one or two fruits one day, for hungry or curiosity, 2) people stripping the entire tree for selling the fruit and 3) non human fruit thieves.

I'm more forgetful about two of them than the other. Children are children and foxes patrolling the fig tree all night deter rats (and erradicate vermin the rest of the year) so they pay several times the fruit with environmental services. I imagine that living in a tropical country with wild monkeys could be a different situation.

I'll not report a new mailman without talking with he/she before; and my advice would be to not disclose the presence of cameras still and see if the mailman deserves a confidence vote or not.

Not ladybug, but a Golden Tortoise Beetle!, probably from genus Aspidimorpha. They eat plants but are incredible beautiful creatures mimicking poisonous frogs.

repeated, sorry

Is a short palm with horrid spines, therefore they need space (will turn into a nuissance in small gardens or greenhouses), and will have the common palm problems and requirements

UPDATE. A couple of lime finger misteries solved.

1) The 60g fruits is not a myth. Lime fingers definitely can make much bigger fruits. I had seen one last weekend, in the middle of a shrub loaded with standard fruits. More than double of the standard width.

2) I did some research about the strange RodneyS plant with leaves very different from Microcitrus australasica. Definitely NOT the common australian finger lime...

I was given an Australian Finger Lime from a friend.  I belive it's the green kind.  Can't wait to try those citrus pellets

... BUT, can be still a finger lime.

Probably one hybrid from the species Citrus wintersii (formerly called Microcitrus papuana). If that, RodneyS could expect mint-green finger lime fruits with whitish green crystals.

A longer harvest period (and fruits mature in the right months), could be more important than a big production.

Clementines are more sweet than acidic, small, easy to peel and seedless. Children love all of those traits, but take in mind that this trees are vigorous and have thorns and a relatively short harvest period. Clemenules is a good standard variety.

Navel oranges are seedless, much bigger, stand better in the tree without losing a lot of quality and can be more versatile. All navel oranges are good to eat. Some are better for juice than other. Cara Cara is a nice curiosity but Washington is perfect, as Lane Late (late) or Navelina (early)

White Oranges are specially good for juice, but have seeds, and sometimes vicious thorns. Are also more yellow orange than the Navel group. I would pick the former.

Tangerines and Tangors are more acidic than Clementines (a more interesting mix of flavours for some people) and have seeds (that is often a problem with small children). Alternaria is a problem often with Tangerines. The variety Safor is resistant.

Try to provide as many manure as possible in any case and choose carefully the rootstock.

I dont have direct experience with, but some could be more vigorous than the other. I suppose that you could put a permanent mark of some type (paint?, tags?, engraving?) before to mix it Just in case some variety starts overshadowing the less vigorous ones.