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What are these?

I found some freakishly huge caterpillars on my tomato plants a few days ago, and while I've seen them before, I want to know their name. They are the light green fat ones, with a horn at the end of their tail. They ate the crap out of some seedlings DS and I planted! There were 3 of them in the planter, and we lost about 1/3 of our dozen seedlings, so I'm sure it could've been much worse! I don't think they'd been there long, or they just ate their fill and fell asleep on the plants (they were dead still when I found them).

Anyway, the birds apparently loved me because I threw them (plant and all) on the driveway, and within minutes, they came swooping down for them. Serves you right eating my plants!

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Re: What are these?

  • ~NB~~NB~ member
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    Tomato hornworms?
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    Tomato hornworms?

    My thoughts also.  They are evil little things and can do some serious damage to your tomatoes very quickly (unfortunately I speak from experience here).

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  • mae141mae141 member
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    Yeah I had them last year. They killed two of my three plants. I was glad to see wasps laid eggs on (in?) them. So gross but it was cool to show my 6th graders pictures of.
  • LOL Yep Tomato horn worms, they are the caterpillars of Sphinx moths which get pretty big and they make their cocoons in the dirt.  There are all types of them but those LOVE tomato plants, its easiest  to just pick them off and find them when they are still small.... Chickens LOVE them as do other birds LOL   I find hand picking them is more effective then drowning the plant in pesticides.
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