Pat Meadows wrote:


You know, I keep reading and hearing about tomato hornworms.
But I've never actually SEEN one, and I've never seen any
other insect-damage to tomatoes either. (I've grown
tomatoes for about 25 years, in four different states and
one Canadian province.)

Maybe I've just been lucky.

Pat

I've seen them & killed them. Nasty big green things.
Last summer I checked my container-grown tomatoes every day;
I did find a few & killed them. We also have bugs here that
go to town on tomato leaves & stems.

You have been lucky. I remember using a smallish bucket when
I had to weed tomatoes as a kid; we hand-picked them & squashed them.
Some years we lost quite a few plants even with vigilance.

Minteeleaf