Tomato Horn Worms was Audrey - gardens

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Around late summer, I'll usually see blue-jays and mockingbirds swooping around

and landing on the tomato plants, flapping and jumping and taking a lot of

effort to pull off the horn worms. They are well camouflaged and can get to be

very big worms. I think they're blind, crawling by feel and holding tight to the

stalks with many pairs of legs. You can tell when they start on a plant by the

square black droppings they leave on the leaves and around the ground. And

individual ends of stems seem to be cleanly clipped off usually higher up on the

plant. They'll make a furrow or eat entirely through tomatoes. It usually takes

me several minutes to find them, too. But they are evidently much more apparent

to the birds, and I'm glad for any help!

 

Slim

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

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> Cat's don't bother with tomato plants and if they did, they would break the

plant apart trying to get them. Cats don't seem interested much in worms, at

least that has been my life long experiences as a multi-cat owner. Those

hornworms are like super suctioned on the plant.

> Judy

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> Audrey Snyder

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> Oh no! Worms? How awful! Send those kitties out on the patio to hunt

> worms...