My poor little patio tomato,
which I have kept alive for 3 years now,
was decimated recently by the dreaded tomato worm.
He ate practically the entire plant,
which made him stretch out to ginormous proportions as you can see below.
But I coaxed him onto a twig and threw him into the street
to hopefully be splattered into a big green mess.
And then I turned around and saw a second one on the tomato growing along the patio railing.
NO!!!
Where do these critters come from??
Avanthi Dev,
HELP!!!
This one wasn't even waiting for the tomato to ripen up,
I have never seen any as full and swollen as these two.
What a revolting development!
Why/how is it I've never before considered what they become ???
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness this makes me so mad! I hate caterpillars! I hope theyre all gone now but 3 years is a good run
ReplyDeleteI am soooooo sorry. I cannot stand anything with more than four legs!
ReplyDeleteHawk moth or sometimes called Hummingbird moth
ReplyDeletea pollenater supreme
not that i love them. All growing season i watch closely for the tell tale
ReplyDeletesign of their presence...somewhere on the plant, a STUMP....leaves gone.
So sit and look, sure enough. They are such masters of camouflage...close
to impossible to see when their little. I pick them off and fling over the
fence into the horse pasture.
But sometimes, they go undetected like yours have and we just can
write it off as a kind of sharing.
Laughing and Ewwww-ing!
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