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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI found this on the patio this morning.
I think it's a horned worm but I'm not sure. [https://photos.app.goo.gl/KxCDTHdoeVEN1KH48]
It's about four to four and a half inches long.
Lunabell
(6,776 posts)They will munch through your tomato plants like a horse. I don't know what other plants it likes to eat.
marble falls
(61,996 posts)True Blue American
(18,152 posts)But I recognize that worm!
Lunabell
(6,776 posts)Ripping and chewing until your plant is a stump, and in just a few hours! I once had several tomato plants that were devastated in just one morning by a herd of these hungry critters. 😫
JoseBalow
(4,956 posts)Cannabis
Too bad the thc is not really available unless it is heat treated. That would be one effed up tomato horn worm!
k55f5r
(396 posts)"Put that in your pipe and smoke it".
True Blue American
(18,152 posts)You get rid of it.
WhiteTara
(30,142 posts)maybe you can set aside a plant and let it be sacrificial and harvest the rest? It is late in the season after all.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,564 posts)There is a tiny wasp that lays eggs in hornworms. As the larvae grow, the worm is paralyzed and eaten. Then you have many tiny wasps that kill hornworms.
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