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Showing posts with label tomato horn worm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tomato horn worm. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Friday, June 25, 2010
I Got the Buggers
On my usual morning stroll in the garden, looking at the transplanted eggplant, the slowly growing cucumbers, the bulbing fennel and what… Is that caterpillar poop on my tomato leaves.
A sure sign of a tomato horn worm. The over crowdedness of my garden is a great exhibit of a place to hide. I spent close to 10 minutes to locate the first one. On to the rest of the plants - WHAT! Another plant with poop on it. Found this one in 10 minutes, took my eyes off of it for a few seconds and had to spend another 5 minutes finding it again. I am sure this not the last of them.
They are currently in a container on the table waiting for a bird to do it's job. (I hate squishing them). I figure if they make it back into the garden - 50 feet away - they deserve the tomato plant until I find them again.
A sure sign of a tomato horn worm. The over crowdedness of my garden is a great exhibit of a place to hide. I spent close to 10 minutes to locate the first one. On to the rest of the plants - WHAT! Another plant with poop on it. Found this one in 10 minutes, took my eyes off of it for a few seconds and had to spend another 5 minutes finding it again. I am sure this not the last of them.
They are currently in a container on the table waiting for a bird to do it's job. (I hate squishing them). I figure if they make it back into the garden - 50 feet away - they deserve the tomato plant until I find them again.
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