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Re: Tomato Worms

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Mary wrote:
> 
> They certainly
> put up a fight when you go to remove them.  Squirting green tomato
> excrement!! and thrashing at you.
> Just in from the war zone

Just a thought. Don't know if this will work with hornworms
or not, but I've tried this on stink bugs and some unknown
orange-colored ant-like thingy with black legs that gathers
in clusters on my tomatoes (not sure if they are good or bad
since they're not in any book I have). This works great to
drown roaches within a few seconds, in case any of you in the
more southern climes have *that* icky problem.

Put some soapy water in a spray bottle and then saturate the 
target. (I use the Shaklee's Basic-H solution, the same one
I use for cleaning, but I'm sure any soapy solution would
do.) The trick is to get the water onto the breathing 
apparatus of the offending insect; the soapy solution
allows the water to penetrate where ordinary water would
not. Thus they drown.

Carolyne  (Florida Panhandle -- where it's now monsoon season
and sticky hot and my teensy garden is looking spent, as gardens
here usually do this time of year.)

-- 
Teaching that enters the ears but not the heart
is like dinner eaten in a dream. ~ Chinese proverb


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