Ugh!! I found one too!! Just today! Actually, I haven't spotted the lil' bugger yet but I spotted some half eaten tomatoes. It's a tomato hornworm. Get it off there and kill it!! I get the heebie jeebies with those things. All day long today, I've felt as though it was crawling on me....ick! I'm on my way outside to find it! The longer it's left there, the more babies it will have..hence more worms!! Good luck to you...and wish me luck..I'm on my way to a worm hunt!

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Great pics, btw.

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Dave
Even my growlights are getting restless!

http://www.vegedge.umn.edu/vegpest/hornworm.htm

Look at the cool moth these guys turn into.....maybe makes you think twice about killing them?

Man those things just freak me out. Never seen one and hopefully I never do.

BTW, loveapples welcome! Great varieties your growing there! Anything ripened yet?

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John - Zone 6

If it's you...where are you hiding?? Because I still haven't found that disgusting slug(s)!!

"Yoo..hoo...oh Thorny...come out, come out whereever you are...I have chocolate...."

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Two have been covered and condemned by wasp larvae and the other two met their demise with my pruners.

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Oh man...that grosses me out. If and when I do find them..I don't know what I will do with them. I can just see myself running at the first sight of them.
My neighbour has been teasing me to squeeze them to death with my bare hands!! Not funny! Yuck!

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You get 'em John!! Show 'em who's boss!

I can't help but picture you swinging that racquet and missing...over and over again...
sorry John..

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Your welcome.

(Aww..you know I love ya! )

I forgot to mention the part about you running in circles all around your yard while you're swinging...becoming tired and dizzy and finally spinning yourself to the ground.

Okay...my turn..lemme have it.

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Well..I'm on my way outside to continue this worm war. Wish me luck. I think I'll put them in a jar, name them and they can be my new pets.

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John & Christina I can't believe the two of you. I had green horn worms earlier and I had no problem squishing them to death or feeding them to the pet rooster.

When you grow tomatoes it is just one thing that you have to deal with every year, If you are checking on your garden/plants daily then the green horm worms can not do enough damage to ruin your crop before you find them...They are hard to see, and turn the same shade of green as the plant they are eating. Normally they hang upside down, like in the pictures. So you have to bend down and look up into your plants to find them...Look for the black poop on the leaves they leave behind also, then look above that area and areas close to where they have been eating..you will find them.

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John & Christina I can't believe the two of you. I had green horn worms earlier and I had no problem squishing them to death or feeding them to the pet rooster.

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Oh..I was just kidding..they don't bother me at all. I was just trying to make John feel better.

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I KNEW it!

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A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess.

There is post down in the pest section with links to what they look like and also the hummingbird moth..they are different...very interesting. Also so very interesting stuff about the horn worm.

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Well, I'll probably play tennis with them anyway. I need to work on my forehand.

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John - Zone 6

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Originally posted by comfrey:
John & Christina I can't believe the two of you. I had green horn worms earlier and I had no problem squishing them to death or feeding them to the pet rooster.

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Thornius you better watch out, you're going to be Rooster food!!!!!


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One OS to rule them, one OS to find them:
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.

oh boy do I LOVE that picture you made Christina!! LOL LOL LOL That is too funny