Terrible new garden destroying Monster found in TN

[ContainerTed]

It's horrible. It's scary. It was ruining many of the best tomatoes I have ever grown.

Here's the exciting story.

I was in the garden, working my way down row 5. As I got to the Cherokee Purple plants, this thing jumped out at me, displaying its horrific carnage and ugly gore. I was really shakened down to my foundation. I wasn't really prepared to come face to face with this critter. I instantly knew that my efforts for the year were facing a most terrible end. Something had to be done quickly. So, with total disregard for my own safety, I sucked up my fortitude, reached in, and managed to grab it. I was releaved it didn't bite my fingers off. It struggled a bit when I put it into the covered bucket, but quickly calmed down.

After bringing it up here to the house, where I felt I could control it while carefully ending its misery, I decided to take a picture of it so you folks would be able to recognize these things. Well, I took the first picture, and then to my surprise, while I was rewinding my digital camera, the danged thing started hatching another one. I quickly snapped another picture just before it attacked. I reacted with a meat cleaver and a large hammer and finally put an end to this episode. Man, I'm telling you that this was a close one. Beware and be watchful 'cause these things can do a lot of damage.

Enjoy