I've killed four of these nasty creatures so far this summer. This is the first year I've ever had tomato worms, and I'm as disgusted by them now as I was when I was a kid and helping my Mom in her garden. I refused to touch them then, and I'm certainly not about to touch them now, gloves or no gloves. Instead, I scrape them off the tomato vines with a stick & smash them between 2 rocks (I have plenty of rocks). I'm hoping these 4 are the sum total I get this year. Hmm.... does anyone know if Sevin Dust works against tomato worms?
Well, I'm off to do my Visiting Teaching. Ya'll have a fine day today, and may you beat the heat.
=) Gayle
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They can be reduced by planting marigold flowers around these plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_quinquemaculata
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