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Re: Weird Worm with lotsa friends


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At 09:45 PM 8/30/99 -0400, Charlie wrote:

>This morning I found two very large (2 inches or so) nearly dead or dead
>green worms covered with dozens of small oval white objects (Eggs?)on my
>tomato plants. What are they?.

The worms are tomato hornworms and the white ovals are parasites killing the
worms.

Never kill a tomato hornworm that is showing these eggs!  That way, you'll
be breeding next season's biocontrol agents for hornworm.

--Janet


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