Re: CULT: Critters - tomato horn worms


Doris Elevier wrote:

>   I never found that they damaged the tomatoes, but they sure
> play hell with the foliage, stripping it down to bare stalks.

Doris,

Once they have defoliated the plant, they will eat the fruit. Knowing 
time was limited this summer, I did not plant a vegetable garden, but my 
wife planted 4 tomato plants - two near the back door and two far away 
near the fence line. She has been battling hornworms near the back door 
with a vengeance, smashing several a day. However, she neglected the 
ones far away. While mowing yesterday, I saw the largest horn worm of my 
experience munching away on a green tomato, having completely stripped 
the foliage off the small plant. It had consumed fully half of each of 
the two hapless tomatoes on that plant.

My chickens would never eat them, either.

Very similar to the tobacco horn worms I grew up with on the tobacco 
farm as a boy in KY,
Bill Wells


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