"janet.bennett" wrote in message
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The tomatoes grown in my mum's greenhouse this summer, were attacked by
caterpillars. The annoying thing was that they ate half a tomato then
moved
on to the next. She's never encountered this problem before, has anyone
else?

Paul

If you see one, remove it.

I was soft enough to leave one on my cherry tomatoes because there were
hundreds of tomatoes and how much damage can one caterpillar do?

Answer: quite a lot - it browses off loads of individual tomatoes and leaves
a groty rotty munch out of each.

So kill without mercy!

Dave R