This is my first time posting a picture. I have not edited this photo, and at the time I took this I was so upset at the damage it did to my tomato plant that I wasn't even thinking about my camera settings. I welcome all advice, teasing, and even tomato throwing.
At least you got a good mug shot for the police - LOL!
Dirtmama834 wrote:
This is my first time posting a picture. I have not edited this photo, and at the time I took this I was so upset at the damage it did to my tomato plant that I wasn't even thinking about my camera settings. I welcome all advice, teasing, and even tomato throwing.
Try liquid soap spray. Aphids and caterpillars don’t like the taste.
Dirtmama834 wrote:
This is my first time posting a picture. I have not edited this photo, and at the time I took this I was so upset at the damage it did to my tomato plant that I wasn't even thinking about my camera settings. I welcome all advice, teasing, and even tomato throwing.
Welcome to the forum. Noe you have proof who the culprit is. Now that you have a mug shot, he may leave and be on the run.
Great image. Sharp.
Dirtmama834 wrote:
This is my first time posting a picture. I have not edited this photo, and at the time I took this I was so upset at the damage it did to my tomato plant that I wasn't even thinking about my camera settings. I welcome all advice, teasing, and even tomato throwing.
Nice shot Dirtmama834, too bad about the damage
It's a very nice image; too bad about your tomato plant.
Great photo. Don't tomato plants grow new leaves after "lunch?"
Great photo. Don't tomato plants grow new leaves after "lunch?"
Soapy water sprayed on them makes them go away
Dirtmama834 wrote:
This is my first time posting a picture. I have not edited this photo, and at the time I took this I was so upset at the damage it did to my tomato plant that I wasn't even thinking about my camera settings. I welcome all advice, teasing, and even tomato throwing.
my husband grows a lot of tomatos...he checks every day, sometimes twice, by walking up and down
each row and cutting them, the worm, not the tomatoes...lol, into with the scissors. they are so hard to spot.
Love your photo of the little bugger. So beautiful yet a pain-in-the-butt to a garden.
vicksart
Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country
Nice shot. It looks like there are no tomatoes for throwing. I'd like to see it in it's adult form, and you might appreciate him more.
BBurns
Loc: South Bay, California
I am a chemical free gardener and compost everything possible.
I refer to it as common sense farming. There is a new buzz word for it now that makes it 5 times more expensive, 'Organic'.
I have tortoises and I also raise Monarch butterflies so I cannot introduce poisons into my ecosystem.
If you do not wish to hand pick these beautiful Sphinx moth larvae, you can easily deal with them using a BT caterpillar control.
It is available at you local hardware store such as Lowe's, Home Depot or Walmart. Examples are
Safer or
Garden SafeIt does not take very much. a gentle spray on the leaves in the morning every 2 or 3 weeks should protect you all season.
Thank you for the garden advice. I didn't have to kill them. My boyfriend did it for me and I honestly regret letting him do it because I think I would have enjoyed taking more pictures a lot more than eating the tomatoes. The plant never did produce many tomatoes but the caterpillars were beautiful.
Mary
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