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can you ID this catapillar?
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Isn't it just a hornworm? I believe there are slight variations in color. Could be wrong.
ModernDayBetty- Posts : 298
Join date : 2011-03-19
Location : Central Washington Zone 7a
Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Snowberry Clearwing Moth pic matches this - range is all over the US. I have tried to post the pic below, but it may just put a link in. Looks like a match to me.
© Dave Wagner, 2002
Hemaris diffinis, larva
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
GG, no link seen
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
camprn wrote:GG, no link seen
Sorry - I was editing because I couldn't get the link to work!
Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Goosegirl wrote:Snowberry Clearwing Moth pic matches this - range is all over the US. I have tried to post the pic below, but it may just put a link in. Looks like a match to me.
© Dave Wagner, 2002
Hemaris diffinis, larva
Now we can see it!
Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Good find GG!
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
Re: can you ID this catapillar?
camprn wrote:Good find GG!
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/identification_tools
this site is cool - it gives a list of choices, you check color, markings, identifiers (tail, horns) and it gives you choices that could match up!
GG
Goosegirl- Posts : 3435
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Thanks for finding it! It turns into a hummingbird moth!
And they do look like the tomato horn worm, they were much smaller, but I'm sure they get big too.
I went out to look on the tomato plants and good thing I did cause there is one of the tomato worms as big as my hand and it stripped the tomato plant of it's leaves, no way I'm touching that thing! It gives me the creeps just looking at it!
And they do look like the tomato horn worm, they were much smaller, but I'm sure they get big too.
I went out to look on the tomato plants and good thing I did cause there is one of the tomato worms as big as my hand and it stripped the tomato plant of it's leaves, no way I'm touching that thing! It gives me the creeps just looking at it!
Re: can you ID this catapillar?
If you found one... there are many you haven't found. Those moths lay LOTS of eggs. Look for holes in your tomato leaves. Carefully turn those leaves over. Tom hornworm babies are TINY. Get them before they grow big! I also find them by looking for their poop on the leaves. The babies' poop looks like ground black pepper. The bigger the worm, the bigger the poop. You'll know what you're look for above the poop based on the size of it. I do this AM and PM. After my morning search I knock the poop off the leaves. If there's more in the evening, I know I missed a worm that morning. I'm down to finding just one or two small worms a day now.
Tril- Posts : 198
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Tril wrote:If you found one... there are many you haven't found. Those moths lay LOTS of eggs. Look for holes in your tomato leaves. Carefully turn those leaves over. Tom hornworm babies are TINY. Get them before they grow big! I also find them by looking for their poop on the leaves. The babies' poop looks like ground black pepper. The bigger the worm, the bigger the poop. You'll know what you're look for above the poop based on the size of it. I do this AM and PM. After my morning search I knock the poop off the leaves. If there's more in the evening, I know I missed a worm that morning. I'm down to finding just one or two small worms a day now.
Do they like sage, too? My Romas are pretty much untouched, but in the adjacent square is my sage and I found exactly what you describe on that this morning.
-NA
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
I don't know about sage... but I found three on my potatoes today! So far, they're chewing on my tomatoes, potatoes and green peppers.
Tril- Posts : 198
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Re: can you ID this catapillar?
Tril wrote:I don't know about sage... but I found three on my potatoes today! So far, they're chewing on my tomatoes, potatoes and green peppers.
Makes sense, they are all Nightshade family.
GG
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