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I found this on the patio this morning. (Original Post) k55f5r Nov 2023 OP
Looks like a horned tomato worm. (but, I'm not an entomologist) Lunabell Nov 2023 #1
Right you are. marble falls Nov 2023 #2
I am not either True Blue American Nov 2023 #4
It'll munch through your garden like a weed eater! Lunabell Nov 2023 #5
"what other plants it likes to eat." JoseBalow Nov 2023 #7
Noooo! Lunabell Nov 2023 #8
I believe the saying is: k55f5r Nov 2023 #10
They love tomatoes. You see onw True Blue American Nov 2023 #3
If it lives, it will become a beautiful Luna Moth WhiteTara Nov 2023 #6
If you see one with little white sticks in its back, leave it alone Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2023 #9

Lunabell

(6,776 posts)
1. Looks like a horned tomato worm. (but, I'm not an entomologist)
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 01:28 PM
Nov 2023

They will munch through your tomato plants like a horse. I don't know what other plants it likes to eat.

Lunabell

(6,776 posts)
5. It'll munch through your garden like a weed eater!
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 01:58 PM
Nov 2023

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. 😫

Lunabell

(6,776 posts)
8. Noooo!
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 03:39 PM
Nov 2023

Too bad the thc is not really available unless it is heat treated. That would be one effed up tomato horn worm!

WhiteTara

(30,142 posts)
6. If it lives, it will become a beautiful Luna Moth
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 02:40 PM
Nov 2023

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)
9. If you see one with little white sticks in its back, leave it alone
Sun Nov 19, 2023, 04:44 AM
Nov 2023

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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