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Jan 4th, 2016 by Adam | 1

green worms that seem to magically appear on my tomato plants

First of all,
cards for humanity, I was an organic gardener; I don’t want to put poison on the food I intend to eat!

There is a parasite, the Trichograma Wasp, that preys on these horn worms. The wasp lays her eggs on the back of the horn worm, and the babies devour the worm from the inside out, then go out to get more worms for THEIR babies!

Hand pick these worms and kill them, but LOOK CLOSELY at them BEFORE you pull them from your plants. Every now and then, one will have something on it’s back that is about the size and color of a grain of rice, standing on end. THAT is the Wasp baby, feeding on the worm. Leave that worm alone! Do NOT pick it off of your plant. It will be dead in a day or so anyway from the wasp, and by leaving it alone, you allow this (miniature, harmless to humans) wasp to hatch and start planting eggs on OTHER worms.

It is AMAZING how quickly this works!

When I first did it, each time I picked worms there were fewer un infected ones. By the next season, whenever a single horn worm appeared, he was COVERED with these eggs, and died quickle from their feeding on him. For years after that, no worm picking was required; the rare ones that showed up were killed by the wasps.

This Spring I decided to give container gardening a try by planting one tomato and one pepper plant. Things were going well and I had three each of peppers and tomatoes growing nicely. When I stepped onto my deck one morning to check on my darling little plants, I was repulsed to see a giant tomato worm between my two smallest tomatoes. The tomato worm was munching away at both tomatoes and had eaten half of one and a quarter of another. My tomato plant was missing leaves where the tomato worm had eaten them down to stubs. Because I find tomato worms hideous I grabbed a pair of kitchen tongs, pulled him off and flung him into the yard. I’m sure a bird or two thanked me. I began to recall summers as a child where I watched my dad pull tomato worms from his tomato plants each evening. Was there really nothing more I could do to save my tomatoes? Would have to diligently pluck these monster tomato worms from my plants each day?

The tomato worm is actually a tomato hornworm or a tobacco hornworm. The tomato hornworm is the larvae of the Hawk Moth while the tobacco hornworm is the larvae of the Sphinx Moth. Both of the moths are large, grayish insects having a wing span of 4 to 5 inches. Typically the tobacco hornworm lives in the Southern states while the tomato hornworm prefers the north.

The moths lay their eggs on the underside of the leaves of tomato plants. Here the tomato worms hatch and begin to eat away at the leaves on the tomato plant stalk and eventually the fruit that the plant bears. It takes about a month for the tomato worm to pass through its five larval stages. These tomato worms work very quickly while eating. They are busy at night and dislike the sun. Checking tomato (and other nightshade plants) in the evening and early morning hours may reveal tomato worms that couldn’t be seen during the day.

When I began researching way to rid my tomato

I had problems with tomato worms really bad this year. I researched on the web organic ways to get rid of them. I found a great solution. First,
cards against humnity, you take about 1/2 pound of hot peppers,
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words against humanity?, add water to make a spray. Spray this all over your plants and the moth will not lay it’s eggs on your plants because the pepper spray burns their skin. It also burns the worms’ skin. Just be sure to reapply the spray after it rains and about half way through the season. Make sure you spray all over the plants.

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