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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pa.
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Parasitic wasps to the rescue
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Tomatopalooza™ Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: NC-Zone 7
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Whoo Hooo!
Great to see nature lending a helping hand in the garden isn't it?! Lee
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Saint Paris, OH
Posts: 143
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i almost feel sorry for the little guy...........NOT
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Z5b SW Ont Canada
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I have found 11 of the disgusting creatures in the past 2 days... but I don't want to kill them because I love those huge moths that they turn into.
I was wondering - do they eat any other plants? Can you relocate them, or do they find their way back? (I can move them several hundred feet away from the garden). Or am I just being foolish, trying to keep them alive, but away from the garden?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 162
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I found 5...YES, 5 of these today quickly chewing their way through my Kosovo plants this morning!
The foliage was looking more spindly and thin than usual, and upon closer examiniation, there they were. All 5 had the lovely wasp decorations adorning their green skins, so I picked them off my tomatoes and put them in the herb bed on the other side of the property....they are goners shortly, and I didn't want to kill the wasps. I'd have squished without regret if they had no wasp pupae...and I think the moths are pretty too....but I love my tomatoes more. I've never had a problem in the past, and now I've found 5 in one day...grrrrrrrr.... |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: California sunset 17
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Last night I was out inspecting the patch. I saw some branches missing leaves and I thought, "hmmm what's up with that? Must be those darn raccoons. Oh my gawd what's that monster in my garden!" I jumped back! Really I've never seen one before! ugh
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Z5b SW Ont Canada
Posts: 767
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I was just out in the garden. I had picked about 14 hornworms off the plants over the last week, and have found more damage, but have been unable to find the worms
![]() Out of the corner of my eye I saw something white, and, there it was, a thing of beauty, a getting-skinnier-by-the-minute hornworm with "many grains of rice" on its back!! I was so excited I dragged my DH away from his LeMans Race on Speedvision, & took him down to the garden to see this wonder of nature! I garden organically, and it was a thrill to see the beneficials in action!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Saint Paris, OH
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Hi All
What do you do when the worms have the little wasp eggs on them, leave it alone and let them hatch?? thanks sue |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Z8b, Texas
Posts: 657
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Eggs-act-ally....matermama! Those are the eggs of more of the benefical insects to destroy more of the hornworms.
Hornworms Tomato Hornworms Damage, Biological Control & other info.
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