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The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
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Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
It is well fed!
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
has55, here we call them tomato hornworms, there is also a tobacco hornworm, they are very similar, slightly different in the striping and the tobacco hornworm have a red horn. They can devour a tomato plant in no time and I remember the tip to look for its frass. I don't want to scare people but if an insect craps big enough for you to notice it. you should have a big stick by which to beat the hornworm and possibly sacrifice the plant. But seriously, look for what would appear to be grains of rice sticking out of the beast and if you see them let the hornworm be. There are parasitic wasp eggs and they will hatch and become your natural defense against this beast in the future. I still remember my first encounter with a tomato hornworm, most of the top of a tomato plant was gone and I was investigating and then I was eye to eye with the beast. I ran in the house to get a gun and I don't even own a gun but it looked big enough to take a good size chunk out of someone but found out it is a vegetarian. I researched more, a lot more before going back outside with a stick, had read about the parasitic wasps and saw that it was loaded with the white rice. It did not move or eat anything else and just withered away.
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Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
Dan, you're right. I spelled it wrong.
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Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
has55 wrote:Dan, you're right. I spelled it wrong.
Fixed the title.....wouldn't want our tomatoes to get hookworms...
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
OhioGardener wrote:has55 wrote:Dan, you're right. I spelled it wrong.
Fixed the title.....wouldn't want our tomatoes to get hookworms...
thank you.
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Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
Those caterpillars are hard to find when they're small. When they're big, they've already done massive damage.
I just learned that the bugs will fluoresce under UV light at night. I went over the gardens last night with a light and didn't see anything. Most things that fluoresce are man-made. Strange to be disappointed by not discovering something bad
I just learned that the bugs will fluoresce under UV light at night. I went over the gardens last night with a light and didn't see anything. Most things that fluoresce are man-made. Strange to be disappointed by not discovering something bad
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Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
Re: The SFG journey-Tomato Hornworm
awesome!!!
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