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NRaleighLiberal

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6. The big tomato worms (hornworms), or smaller ones that burrow into the fruit (fruit worms)?
Wed Jul 15, 2015, 11:01 PM
Jul 2015

tomato hornworm



tomato hornworm with parasitic wasp pupae



Tomato fruit worm



I don't spray - if you don't want to touch them, cut off the leaf it is attached to and put it in a bird feeder (platform type) - birds love them! If they have the white pupae, leave it - the wasps in the white pupae hatch and eat the hornworm from the inside out and make more wasps that go after more hornworms.

For the fruit worms, use something to poke them off the plant or fruit and feed to the birds - if they are in the tomato, remove it and toss it far away!

No need to spray for pests that large and easy to see - in my opinion, anyway!

Diatomaceous earth or Bt should work Major Nikon Jul 2015 #1
Spinosad fasttense Jul 2015 #2
gloves? GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #3
Do you mean the big hornworms? femmocrat Jul 2015 #4
I do the same thing. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #5
The big tomato worms (hornworms), or smaller ones that burrow into the fruit (fruit worms)? NRaleighLiberal Jul 2015 #6
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