On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:08:07 -0400
songbird wrote:

John McGaw wrote:
...
I thought that I had it bad until the hornworms showed up a couple of days
ago. The first sign was grooves eaten into the surface of first one tomato
then a couple more. I found a couple of the nasty little things (well not
so little actually -- one was the size of my index finger) and killed those
manually and then I broke out the dusting gun and treated the plants. I
dislike using insecticides but if the tomatoes are going to last long
enough to be ruined by anthracnose I had to do something...

we go out and pick them off in morning before they
hide for the day. often they can be found by looking
on the ground for fresh droppings.

I pick them off when ever I find them Morning and evening seem to
be the best times though...

I can't bring myself to put anything like that on stuff I'm going to
eat. The weeds in the driveway cracks, poison ivy along my trails...
that's fair game for nuking.

none have shown up yet this year, but usually it is
about this time we'll see damage from them.

A bit farther north, none here yet either...

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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