Help AGAIN!

[Badtxmofo]

What is going on here? These holes were eaten almost all the way through the Tomaoto

[Mudman]

Slugs. Maybe snails in your area. You now know what they do to pepper leaves and tomatoes.

[DogsandDirt]

I would say tomato fruitworm, which is apparently the same critter as the corn ear worm. Scroll down to the bottom. The holes in your fruit look like the ones on this website (in my opinion). Have you tried Bt? It helps with horn worms and fruit worms.

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.o...n-earworm.aspx

Good luck.

[Badtxmofo]

I just sprayed seven on everything. I am very disapointed that my first mater was junk!

[janezee]

It was sour, anyway.

j

[genieriley]

MY GUESS IS TOMATOE HORN WORM GREEN AS TOMATOE WITH A CURVED HORN ON HIS HEAD.LOOK CLOSELY THEY ARE HARD TO SPOT AND THEY MAKE EXCELLENT FISH BAIT

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by genieriley

MY GUESS IS TOMATOE HORN WORM GREEN AS TOMATOE WITH A CURVED HORN ON HIS HEAD.LOOK CLOSELY THEY ARE HARD TO SPOT AND THEY MAKE EXCELLENT FISH BAIT

Too early for horn worms where I live in Texas and more than likely too early in Kilgore too.

Here is the life cycle of the dreaded horn worm.
http://www.uky.edu/Classes/ENT/574/i...thw_images.htm

Looks like fruit worm damage spray with BT.

Worth

[DogsandDirt]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Too early for horn worms where I live in Texas and more than likely too early in Kilgore too.

Worth

They're already making an appearance up here
From my experience, hornworms will eat the fruit from the outside and stay on the outside. Fruitworms will eat a hole into the fruit and actually enter the fruit (peppers, too). Did you happen to cut open the fruit that was ruined? There was probably one in there. You need to spray before they enter the fruit, whether with Bt or any other pesticide. Once they're inside, the fruit protects them. Try a weekly spray with Bt and again after a rain or if they get sprayed from a sprinker system or hose.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by DogsandDirt

They're already making an appearance up here
From my experience, hornworms will eat the fruit from the outside and stay on the outside. Fruitworms will eat a hole into the fruit and actually enter the fruit (peppers, too). Did you happen to cut open the fruit that was ruined? There was probably one in there. You need to spray before they enter the fruit, whether with Bt or any other pesticide. Once they're inside, the fruit protects them. Try a weekly spray with Bt and again after a rain or if they get sprayed from a sprinker system or hose.

Good lord I'm going to the store to get a pressure gauge, come home and spray after the rain we had.

They might just come early this year.

Worth

[Crandrew]

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[Mischka]

Originally Posted by Crandrew

I CANNOT CONTROL THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE. ARGH SO ANGRY.

Sometimes there is a valid reason for using the caps lock. In this case, the member that did so is indeed, visually impaired.

I fail to see any humor in backhanded, off-topic remarks.

Don't do it again.

[Badtxmofo]

Thanks for the help

[Mudman]

I just figured it was snails because he already had snail damage on his peppers and found snails, and that is what slugs do to my tomatoes.

[Crandrew]

Slugs bore through your entire tomatoes? wow that's intense.

Mine just sit on top and eat everything from the lounge chair.

[Rockporter]

We have had Hornworm here in Rockport TX too!