That sucks so bad! Get a black/uv flashlight and go look at your plants after dark. They glow neon green so you can pick them off when they are smaller and hopefully prevent further damage. I’m sorry this happened to you! Tomato horn worms are such buttholes!
billthedog0082
That’s what they’re good at.
ThrowawayCult-ure
delicious
EatsTheLastSlice
My partner has volunteered to get rid of them when they come for my garden.
SultanOfSwave
I bought a UV flashlight just a couple of days ago after not being able to spot the one(s) going after my wife’s tomato plants.
Must pay more attention they don’t know that big overnight most people look at their gardens once a day
Sorry for your loss
Unfortunately every day is a lesson learned
-myeyeshaveseenyou-
I’m so damn happy I live in the uk, these are vile
Practical_Staff_7434
Forbidden jellies.
TopToe7563
What they taste like?
RestaurantLate2898
Look like AMAZING fish bait!! ** googles fish with tomatoes recipes **
Virtual-Pineapple-85
Birds love these things. I put small bits of broken eggshells on the soil before I plant my garden. Birds like that too. And I put the tomato cages out for them to perch on. Now I have a bird friendly garden. I do NOT put a bird feeder in the yard – I want them nomming on pests not seeds. The birds perch on the top of the tomato cages and eat the pests for me.
Found 3 the first night! Jerks. I cut the leaves and put them in the woods. Wished them luck lol
EcstaticCarpet6251
Btk also eliminates horn worms. If you spray your cabbage/broccoli/kale, save some extra for the tomatoes.
GemmyCluckster
Thanks for the reminder to go check mine tonight with the UV light.
dryheat122
When you see the first one (or better yet if you see the moth below, which lays the eggs), spray with bacillus thuringiensis (BT). It’s harmless to humans but deadly to those worms.
Display them on wooden skewers around your garden as a warning to others.
JaffyAny265
Turn into a hummingbird moth. Tomato horn worm caterpillar.
Choice-Raisin8862
Salt them
TropicalDragon78
Gift them to a neighbor or friend with chickens.
Cardea13
Offering sympathies – how terrible. Deer ate all mine.
Lexi-Lvn
It would be so fun and great fulfillment to have a toothpick. 😁
rayray6868
They suck! They just about took one of my tomato plants completely down. It still hasn’t recoup. I must of killed about 12 of them. They are bad this year!
Dapper_Money_Tree
It sucks because they look so cool, and make such interesting looking moths.
Too bad they are the enemy.
DiviningRodofNsanity
I’m sorry, man. I had a similar situation. I used neem oil. Next year I will set around a few sacrificial pots in hopes to distract, as well as plant natural deterrents. Don’t get discouraged. It’s trial and error until you learn what works best for you and your location. If they were cultivars you were especially fond of, consider making clones, or pulling any surviving tomatoes to split open and grow in a pot to get the genetic line going.
chuglife-614
They hate basil and marigolds. Plant them near your tomato plants and they’ll never come back.
304Grower
Can use a small black light at night to spot them faster next time. I would guess you have twice as many small ones on your plants still. Set them out for bird food!
BackFew5485
Best way to see these bastards is covered in parasitic wasp larvae eating them alive. That’s why I companion plant alyssums.
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Assassins!
Bite into one. I bet they taste like tomatoes 😆
That sucks so bad! Get a black/uv flashlight and go look at your plants after dark. They glow neon green so you can pick them off when they are smaller and hopefully prevent further damage. I’m sorry this happened to you! Tomato horn worms are such buttholes!
That’s what they’re good at.
delicious
My partner has volunteered to get rid of them when they come for my garden.
I bought a UV flashlight just a couple of days ago after not being able to spot the one(s) going after my wife’s tomato plants.
Here he is just before his trebuchet ride.
https://preview.redd.it/tb4gg5lrpvgf1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb4e0ffaa97f0329aa6f7afda5519d65726663b7
Must pay more attention they don’t know that big overnight most people look at their gardens once a day
Sorry for your loss
Unfortunately every day is a lesson learned
I’m so damn happy I live in the uk, these are vile
Forbidden jellies.
What they taste like?
Look like AMAZING fish bait!!
** googles fish with tomatoes recipes **
Birds love these things. I put small bits of broken eggshells on the soil before I plant my garden. Birds like that too. And I put the tomato cages out for them to perch on. Now I have a bird friendly garden. I do NOT put a bird feeder in the yard – I want them nomming on pests not seeds. The birds perch on the top of the tomato cages and eat the pests for me.
Yeah that sucks.
they are the devil in worm form
https://preview.redd.it/21rm8il8wvgf1.jpeg?width=584&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6146fe2f714cc776b2185a5e844b16a26af7332
Nighttime UV flashlight hunting is key 🔑
I found the frass first and immediately ordered black light flashlights.
https://preview.redd.it/a9ltujzmxvgf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17b55d1b74a25d8ae4f5c24b726133da7dcbb991
Found 3 the first night! Jerks. I cut the leaves and put them in the woods. Wished them luck lol
Btk also eliminates horn worms. If you spray your cabbage/broccoli/kale, save some extra for the tomatoes.
Thanks for the reminder to go check mine tonight with the UV light.
When you see the first one (or better yet if you see the moth below, which lays the eggs), spray with bacillus thuringiensis (BT). It’s harmless to humans but deadly to those worms.
https://preview.redd.it/fu9gvlc6zvgf1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=960172144d24a0802ce64169aa13d7784e996d70
Display them on wooden skewers around your garden as a warning to others.
Turn into a hummingbird moth. Tomato horn worm caterpillar.
Salt them
Gift them to a neighbor or friend with chickens.
Offering sympathies – how terrible. Deer ate all mine.
It would be so fun and great fulfillment to have a toothpick. 😁
They suck! They just about took one of my tomato plants completely down. It still hasn’t recoup. I must of killed about 12 of them. They are bad this year!
It sucks because they look so cool, and make such interesting looking moths.
Too bad they are the enemy.
I’m sorry, man. I had a similar situation. I used neem oil. Next year I will set around a few sacrificial pots in hopes to distract, as well as plant natural deterrents. Don’t get discouraged. It’s trial and error until you learn what works best for you and your location.
If they were cultivars you were especially fond of, consider making clones, or pulling any surviving tomatoes to split open and grow in a pot to get the genetic line going.
They hate basil and marigolds. Plant them near your tomato plants and they’ll never come back.
Can use a small black light at night to spot them faster next time. I would guess you have twice as many small ones on your plants still. Set them out for bird food!
Best way to see these bastards is covered in parasitic wasp larvae eating them alive. That’s why I companion plant alyssums.