Some bug ate the leaves off my tomato plants
In article ,
"Marie Dodge" wrote:
A tomato hornworm can take a branch off of a medium sized tomato plant
overnight. Several worms and fairly small plants overnight would be
long enough.
True but they didn't fall from the sky 3" long. :-) You got to catch those
suckers before they reach a size were they can do such horrific damage.
We're always on the lookout for evidence of hornworms.
But they grow so bloody fast! ;-)
One night they are a pinprick and I swear in 24 hours, they ARE 3" long!
lol
Seems that way anyhoo.
Many people swear by BT. It's supposed to be non-toxic to humans and
other animals. Just larval insects.
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