Tomato Hornworms,
Aug 25, 2017 09:22:32 #
Manduca Quinquemaculata, is really a caterpillar, These nasty little 4" insects that can destroy your tomato garden. From this picture, you can see how well they can hide themselves on your plants.
Aug 25, 2017 09:46:08 #
Nice shot! They live in my garden and I have yet to see one this year. They take one or two tomatoes a day and typically they eat about half and pick on the red ones.
Aug 25, 2017 09:51:48 #
DaveO wrote:
Nice shot! They live in my garden and I have yet to see one this year. They take one or two tomatoes a day and typically they eat about half and pick on the red ones.
Spray with liquid sevin or dust with powder and they along with other insect pests will be gone.
Aug 25, 2017 09:54:28 #
Aug 25, 2017 10:29:30 #
These green things can strip a large tomato plant in a matter of hours. I use a paper towel, pick them off the plant and step on them. That's mean but I like a vine ripened tomato too.
Aug 25, 2017 15:27:48 #
Tikva
Loc: Waukesha, WI
Sharing one's garden with wild creatures has always been a problem. I wonder what early settlers did to protect their plants?
Aug 25, 2017 20:17:20 #
Tikva wrote:
Sharing one's garden with wild creatures has always been a problem. I wonder what early settlers did to protect their plants?
I think mostly they picked them off by hand and can remember my mother talking about picking the tobacco worms off their tobacco plants. When I was young there were dusts and sprays but as I remember almost all were dusts and you could place some in a cloth and shake it over the plant but most used special spray dusters. You loaded some of the material into the tank of the duster and slightly pushed it's plunger forward which applied a little dust to each plant! These dusters could be purchased at just about any general store.
Aug 25, 2017 20:23:16 #
We had a tin can with some kerosene about half full. We walked thru the garden and picked insects off by hand and dropped them in the can.
At that time beetles on the corn were the worst. I hated that job, that was in the 50's
At that time beetles on the corn were the worst. I hated that job, that was in the 50's
Aug 25, 2017 20:29:17 #
I'm going to have to look harder and pick them off. I ran out and got some Seven Dust 5% before researching and found that I need to harvest at least 3 days after application. Not a good idea right now unless the weather cools and the ripening slows.
Aug 26, 2017 14:47:25 #
Tikva
Loc: Waukesha, WI
I liked the answers to my question of what people used to do to protect their plants from pests. I don't remember what my grandparents did in the '40's and '(0's.
Aug 26, 2017 17:50:20 #
hdfilmnoir wrote:
Manduca Quinquemaculata, is really a caterpillar, These nasty little 4" insects that can destroy your tomato garden. From this picture, you can see how well they can hide themselves on your plants.
Ugly in the caterpillar stage but they morph into the rather beautiful Sphinx moth.
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