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Name: Brian Halse Orange, CA (Zone 10a)        Englishgardener Apr 25, 2018 3:03 PM CST |
Found on my Tomato crop last year. |
Name: Frank Mosher Nova Scotia, Canada (Zone 6a)           fwmosher Apr 25, 2018 3:32 PM CST |
| I am just fascinated by this Tomato Hornworm, although in all my years of gardening, I have never found it on a tomato plant, but only on grape vines. I have captured them, and put them in canning jars on my deck, with small airt holes punched in the lid, and the next morning, nothing! Like they are gone or disintegrated?? Multiple tries! Nothing! I wonder what happens to them in just one night? Do you think they could have gone from caterpillar to moth in that one night? Mine were very stunning, and at least 3" long. |
 OldsaltPensacola Apr 28, 2018 11:59 AM CST |
| I wait with great hope every year for a good crop of horn worms, they are the best bait in the world for Bass, Blue Gills, Crappie. Their skins are so tough I have caught three fish on one worm. I keep a fish tank with tomatoe volinteers form the compost pile and toss them in there untill I get a few (they freeze well). |
Name: Liz Shaw Gilbert, AZ (Sunset Zone 13) (Zone 9a) Arizona Gardener              LizDTM Apr 28, 2018 3:55 PM CST |
| I had a plague of them last year by this time. This year I haven't spotted any. Yet. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anaïs Nin |
Name: Ed Palm Springs, CA, USA (Zone 9b)  PalmSpringsVeg Jun 2, 2018 6:43 AM CST |
| My gorgeous and amazing tomato plants were all of a sudden being devastated by T-hornworms. Every evening I would go out and pick off 8-10, including massive ones. I ended up doing the BT/potassium silicate recipe, via a short video I found on YouTube. The link is here - I am day 5 post treatment and all seems to be good - for now. Although it is supposed to be 108 here in the So. Calif. low desert today - so on to problem #2 to save the precious tomato plants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... UPDATE: these b-stards are even going after my Serrano peppers - go figure!!!  |
Name: Rob Glendale, AZ (Zone 9b)      RobGlen Jul 29, 2018 7:16 PM CST |
| My eggplants were nice yesterday and today I found a hornworm thoroughly enjoying them. Overnite it ate a third of the plant's foliage! |
Name: Karen New Mexico (Zone 7b)            plantmanager Jul 29, 2018 7:22 PM CST |
| Ouch, Rob! Take a really close look tomorrow. They can be so tiny and hide underneath the leaves. They grow really quickly by eating your plants. Handcrafted Coastal Inspired Art SeaMosaics! |
Name: Rob Glendale, AZ (Zone 9b) RobGlen Jul 29, 2018 7:37 PM CST |
I found three more....Here is one. |
Name: Karen New Mexico (Zone 7b) plantmanager Jul 29, 2018 7:45 PM CST |
| Keep looking. I have no idea how they find the plants, but they always do! I've never grown tomatoes without having them show up for the party. Handcrafted Coastal Inspired Art SeaMosaics! |
Name: Carl Boro Milpitas, CA (Zone 10b)    coboro Apr 20, 2019 3:14 PM CST |
| It's a shame that they can devastate tomato plants so quickly. The adult moths are quite beautiful and are the insect equivalent of a hummingbird. They can hover, fly up, down, forwards and backwards. And they pollinate many flowers. What they take away, they give back. And if the tomato plant is big enough, it usually survives the horn worms and even benefits form a little pruning. Carl |
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