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Old 15-07-2003, 01:02 AM
FarmerDill
 
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Default What's eating my beautiful tomatoes?

Hi...I'm relatively new to vegetable gardening so please parden my
ignorance. My tomatoes are doing beautifully, except for one thing--some
sort of worm has decidend to eat through as many of them as possible. The
damage looks just like that for an apple hosting a worm guest.

Is there some sort of "typical" worm or similar pest that likes tomatoes?
If so, how do I deal with him/her?

Thanks!
Paul

If they are drilling holes in the fruit and going inside you have the tomato
fruit worm. On corn its called the corn ear worm but it is the same critter.
Lots of controls but for worms I always start with BT (brand names DIPEL
Thuricide etc)