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Re: hornworms, was nasturtiums

At 04:03 PM 1/31/97 EST, you wrote:
>Horn worm bites are not venomous nor very painful, ware gloves if you
>wish. But do learn to spot them early and hand pick them. Drop them into
>a bucket of water and they will expire overnight. If you can't see them,
>watch for droppings to help locate them. If you are going to grow
>tomatoes, your going to have horn worms, so learn to live with them.
>
  I agree, I throw them up on my roof where the sun will soon do them in and
  they provide a tasty morsal for the neighborhood birds.

  They are big and ugly and can eat a tremendous amount of folage so hand pick
  right away.  I also noticed last spring a small white moth or butterfly
fliting
  around the tomatoes.  I suspect this was the hornworms "MA" so I harrased
it everytime
  it came around and the result was only two hornworms all season.  I could
be wrong about
  the "MA" being that white butterfly, but I tried not to let it land on the
plants and
  ended up with verrry few hornworms.

Richard KF6ATJ
Sacramento California
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