"GROSS" Tomato Horn Worn Now On My Egg Plant
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▶▶▶ CLICK BELOW FOR LINKS, TIPS, & MORE ▶▶▶ ▶ Website: http://www.DevinHunter.com ▶ Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=badboyorganics ▶ Become A Fan On Facebook: http://fb.com/DevinHunter This is getting ridiculous, we are getting tomato horn worms on now on my egg plant. After further investigation, the horn worm is prevalent in north America. I found this info @ http://www.planetnatural.com/site/xdpy/kb/tomato-hornworm-control.html Hope it helps! Description: Common throughout North America, the tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) is one of the most destructive pests of tomato, potato, pepper, eggplant and tobacco plants. They consume entire leaves, small stems, and sometimes chew pieces from fruit. Despite their large size, hornworms are often difficult to spot because of their protective coloring. Growers will often find large areas where feeding has occurred before they see this garden pest. Damage is most often noticed in midsummer and continues throughout the remainder of the growing season. Likely to be the largest caterpillars you'll see in the vegetable garden, tomato hornworms (3-4 inches long), are green with seven diagonal white strips and a black or red horn projecting from the rear. Adults are large (4-5 inch wingspan), heavy-bodied moths. They are gray or brown in color with white zigzags on the rear wings and orange or brownish spots on the body. Also called a sphinx or hawk moth, they fly quickly and are able to hover like a hummingbird. Tip: To find the larvae hidden among plants, look for black droppings (frass) on the leaves and ground and spray the foliage with water. The caterpillars will thrash about and give away their hiding spots. Life Cycle: Overwintering occurs in the soil as dark brown pupae. Adult moths emerge in late spring, mate and deposit spherical green eggs on the underside of leaves. In 5 days hatching begins and the larva passes through five or six stages before reaching full growth in 3-4 weeks. These larvae eventually burrow into the soil where they transform into the pupal stage. Adults develop in 2-4 weeks and work their way to the soil surface, where they mate and begin laying eggs for the next generation of hornworms. There are two generations per year. Tomato Hornworm Control: Because they are so large hornworms are most often controlled in home gardens by handpicking. Once removed from the plant, they can be destroyed by dropping them into a bucket of soapy water. Beneficial insects including lacewings, braconoid and trichogramma wasps, and ladybugs attack the eggs. For best results, make releases when pest levels are low to medium. If populations are high, use a least-toxic, short-lived natural pesticide to establish control, then release predatory insects to maintain control. Both Dipel Dust (Bacillus thuringiensis, var. kurstaki) and Monterey Garden Insect Spray (spinosad) are very effective, especially on young caterpillars (larvae). If pest levels become intolerable, spot treat with botanical insecticides. Roto-tilling after harvest destroys overwintering pupae in the soil. This is especially effective since pupae are large and not buried very deeply in the soil. Results have shown that greater than 90% mortality is caused by normal garden tilling. Note: If you have caterpillars that have parasitic wasp cocoons attached to them, don't destroy them! Collect them instead and allow them to eat unwanted or volunteer tomatoes until the wasps hatch inside. Now you've got an army of free, natural predators to work for you.
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They're cute. Reminds me of the catepillar in that Disney film. I didn't kill mine. Just became a big moth yesterday. Amazing creatures to watch.
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he no like those worms lmao !!!!!!
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all of yours are great
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to kill them is to drop them into alcohol
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its your plants man
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Thank you for nice and entertaining Video about big caterpillar on your garden plants! Best greetings from entomologists in Ukraine! :)
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The caterpillar comes from a moth laying the eggs on your plants in the nightshade family. Just plant an extra tomato plant and pick them off that's all you can do. They aren't poisonous.
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looks just like a tobacco worm ... kill that bugger don't toss him over the fence.. duh
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I have lots of them this year but only on my potted plants that means I bought soil with them in it. My plants that are planted in the ground on the other side of the house have not be attached. Funny thing is my potted plants are up off the ground so I know they came from the soil I bought at the store. This is the second time this has happen to my potted plants.
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I had tomato horn worms in my eggplant. There where seven at once!!!! So I went to the home depote and get this worm killer for ten dollars and it worked like a charm. Got rid of all the worms. The worm killer is called 7+. It kills a lot of different things to. Hope my advice helps😉
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That is a tobacco hornworm not tomato.
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collect them up and sell them on ebay or sell them to me.
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Ŀol
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Don't throw them over the fence. They will just pupate and you will have more of them next year. The only way is to squash them. Put them in a plastic bag and tie it up. They go crazy and attack each other and die.
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Marigolds don't always work. I have at least 10 plants surrounding my tomatoes this year all in full bloom and I still have the Biggest tomato hornworms I have seen in years!
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Horn worms are TASTY !
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what kind of peppers?
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Why are you throwing them over the fence to give them to your neighbors? Use a jar and put them in the jar.
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They make the prettiest moths that look like hummingbirds. In my garden, If they are decimating a plant, I'll let these guys go. He was big enough (and fat enough) that he was about to make his chrysalis. In a few weeks after that, you'd have a healthy pollinator for your garden.
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that's fucked up!!!!
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