tomatoe worms ack!

duckiedo

18 years ago

omg.

i can handle snakes...but these things paralyze me!

do they sting?

the only way i can get rid of them is to cut the whole branch off!

where do they come from?

i never see them till i plant a tomatoe and there they are...do they come with the plants...buy one get one free?

shudder

xoox

duck

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ruthieg__tx
18 years ago
They are big nasty creatures aren't they? They can also defoliate a tomato faster than you can bat an eye.I keep a pair of scissors in my garden and I just cut whatever leaf they are on off and let it fall into a bucket or on the ground and then I slice him into at least two pieces or I step on him...nasty buggars.
duckiedo
Original Author
18 years ago
oh you are so brave..i toss the branch with the worm in the middle of the road for the birds!

lol
duck
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mariend
18 years ago
I use to put them in a jar then toss them into the chicken pen. But when I was much younger I use to put the worm in a jar and bury the whole jar. My Dad never did find out why he kept digging up jars with dried things.
Anyway, back here in ND we do not have them and many do not even know what they are! Thank heavens.
bamasue
18 years ago
Ah, what memories!! My Dad used to pay me a nickel for every worm I could get off his tomato plants! Needless to say, I learned to love 'em then...but not now with their annual arrival in my own garden and no one to pay me now!
dances_in_garden
18 years ago
Those suckers get HUGE. And you can actually hear them munching LOL. I absolutely cannot step on them, because they POP. And you don't want to step on one in bare feet for sure - blech.

I have been lucky not to have them here, but at my parents new house they have two or three containers with tomato plants in the summer and you should see how those big things cover them. ICKY ICKY!
duckiedo
Original Author
18 years ago
icky is right!

xoox
duck
sheilajoyce_gw
18 years ago
I have a devil of a time sighting them. I will know I have at least one from the denuded branch and lots of caterpillar poop, but I just cannot see them. If my younger son is here, I call him to find them, and he spots them right away.
jannie
18 years ago
I swear they come with the plants. And they are so ugly-that "horn" on their head and two big eyes. They gross me out. I pick them off and squash them. I wish there was a natural repellant!
lydia1959
18 years ago
My Mom was just talking about tomato worms today! She says the Cardinals walk the rows every morning and pick them all off! She pays them back by keeping her feeders full of sunflower seeds.
duckiedo
Original Author
18 years ago
lydia ...that's a good idea...

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