Get Your Backyard Birds To Eat Those Tomato Hornworms

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Posted by @Newyorkrita on August 16, 2016

I hardly ever can spot those nasty tomato hornworms. I let my feathered friends do it for me.

Hornworms can devastate your tomato plant, but they seem to be nearly impossible to find, especially when they are smaller, but not for sharp-eyed birds. They will spot them for you and pick them off.

Attract the birds to your tomato patch for the organic control of insect pests. I make sure the birds end up around the tomato patch often by placing small feeders in my tomato patch. Keep it simple. A tuna can mounted on a post with some birdseed is enough to draw them in. While the birds are perched in the tomato cages, they will notice any hornworms or other insect pests that need to be removed. Problem solved.