topic Re: What Is This? in Garden

What Is This?

Anonymous032819 — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:57:50 GMT

Saw this outside, and I think that might be a tomato worm?

Re: What Is This?

RedTop — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 03:07:49 GMT

It looks like a cabbage looper to me.

Re: What Is This?

Lovethedunes — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 04:28:17 GMT

Out West, we call it a tomato hornworm--they will eat your tomatoes and leaves. They can't hurt you, so just pick them off your plants and dispose of them when you find them.

Re: What Is This?

avid shopper — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 10:39:21 GMT

I agree with @Lovethedunes . I also hand picked and tossed into the dumpster. If left unchecked they will devestate your tomatoes.

Re: What Is This?

JustJazzmom — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:03:36 GMT

If that is your photo, it's a tomato hornworm, the larvae of a moth. Pick them off, bag them & toss out. Look carefully among the leaves of your tomato plants. But if you see white dots on the top of its head, a parasitic wasp has laid its eggs on it so when they hatch, the wasp larvae have food to eat.