A Beast in the Garden
This guy was eating a tomato plant today. I'm glad he is just 2 inches long. If he was ten feet long
I'd have to get out the .50 Hawken.
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I believe he is looking at you, and you and you and................... Don
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Which end is the front?
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The left side is the front. I tell you this guy can really eat some tomato leaves.
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eye see what you did there
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Some sort of snake
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Tobacco hornworm sure death and destruction on tomatoes and tobacco. Seven dust will kill them or just pick them off and stomp on them
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Tomato worm. Turns into the Sphinx Moth you probably see flying around flowers in the evening like a hummingbird.
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Tasty little buggers!
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I'd call that bait!
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I've stomped on quite a few over the years. They leave a slimy green splat that will make a grandkid shout; "EEEeeewwe!!" 😁
I also used to throw them to my backyard chickens. They would go into a fighting frenzy over them.
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Kids used to shoot them with BB guns! Fun watching watching them "deflate".
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Just feed it to your box turtles. Sphinx moths are great polinators and fun to watch. For years we grew datura, another deadly nightshade family plant. When horn worms appeared on the tomatoes, we moved them to the datura. They did not care and made months.
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Truthful nailed it.
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I agree they can strip a tomato plant in no time
just pick them off and feed to the chickens or another a another section of the yard Thay will nor get back to the mater plants from
by the way some caterpillar's can sting and do hurt dont ask how I know 😁
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Yesterday I noticed a dozen white eggs laid on the caterpillar's back. Some parisitic wasp. It looked like these would kill my little guy, a long and slow death. So I decided to wack him today to put him out of his misery. I dropped him to the ground from ten inches and was going to smush him.
To my surprise, all the eggs were knocked off of his back. I put him back on the tomato plant. The tomatoes are all gone there will be no more this year.
He is pretty lethargic but he never was too zippy to begin with. He has little black marks on his back where the eggs used to be. Do y'all think he will survive the attack of mama wasp?
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Those guys are like $.75 to $1.00 apiece at Petco.
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Tobacco horn worm, they became tomato horn worms when we imported tomatoes. They will feed on several plant species in the deadly night shade family.
Allen those are not eggs, they are pupae, and you are right, they are parasitoid wasps, but they have already fed in the body of the caterpiller and likey have already eclosed as wasps. Nope the horn worm will not survive.
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The horn worm is still alive but hasn't moved an inch since I put him back on the tomato plant.
Mother Nature is cruel.
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fried green horn worms
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When I was young I kept trying to get one to crawl over a lit black cat firecracker.
Finally succeeded.
Ewwwwww!
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When we were raising and barning tobacco they were commonplace. For fun we would drop them into the straight exhaust pipe on the super a tractor with the engine at idle . Then gag the throttle wide open to see how high they would go . Teenagers will come up with some strange games sometimes .back them in was just fun, now they lefties would crucify you for doing so .
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