Q&A - Where do tomato hornworms come from?
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2016
- Tomato Hornworms are the caterpillar of the large Sphynx moth (sometimes called hummingbird moth). The moth lays an egg and once hatched the hornworm caterpillar eats until it grows to approximately four inches in length. The caterpillar the goes into the soil where it pupates. The hornworms are very well camouflaged on tomato plants. You can see where they have eaten because of the leafless stems and they can often be found by looking for their excrement. They are easily controlled by picking them off, or by using BT (Bacillus thuringiensis). Tomato hornworms and tobacco hornworms both eat tomato leaves. The tomato hornworm has light colored V markings on the side while the tobacco hornworm has light colored slashes on the side.
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Hell. Tomato hornworms come from hell. The deepest bowels of hell. There, and sphinx moths.......
They are my nemesis
Well damn!! Lol
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Lol....yes, yes they do
When I first tried growing a few tomato plants, I wasn’t prepared for them. I remember having a busy week at work, then going out happily to check the tomatoes..and being creeped at seeing the first one, which was the size of my pinkie finger.
Then I saw another, another,another…my God they were everywhere. It was like that scene from Aliens, where they trick you by having one that blended in with the wall move first, which is already bad enough, then the other 12 that were holding still all start moving as well.
And I am fine with snakes, spiders, I even think rats and mice are cute….but these things…👀.
These things used to freak me out as a kid. They were so hard to see and once you would realize you were looking at a freaking evil creature, it was always so startling.
Lol🤣🤣🤣
Even as an adult, I agree that the fact that they blend in so well, and only at the last moment do you realize there is a giant green worm right there…is what really ups the creepy factor. If they were bright yellow or pink or brown/grey…they wouldn’t be quite as creepy (still creepy, but not as much).
I have used a blacklight at night to find the green worms. Works great because they are so hard to see in the day. Look for the little black colored ones in the day.
Never tried it, but many say that interplanting with basal helps. The idea is that the strong basal scent makes it harder for the moth to find the tomato plant smell it’s looking for.
Saw a HUGE hornworm munching on our yellowbell plant today, here in Phoenix, AZ. It was a feisty little fellow! It kept trying to slug me!!
They are feisty little things! I always toss them in the middle of the street. Good bird food!
They’re great fish bait too!!
Thank you very much. Just took about 15 tomato horn worms off of my cherry tomatoes. Watching for gators behind me whenever I’m in the garden.
Good luck on the tomatoes... and staying away from the gators 😀
When I was a child I used to catch a bunch of them it was fun exploring.
Yuck 🤮
BT is awesome to counter hornworms! Generously spray both sides of leaves as well as the branches and stems. Here in Richmond, Va I started seeing them in mid-June. So I started spraying at that point and have not seen any more of them. Don't just spray once. Keep spraying. I am doing so on a weekly basis.
Thank you very much, I am 59 and have never seen one, yet today I found one on my black nightshade plant and did not have a clue. Now I Do
Glad we could help!
Black light your tomato plants at night. Can get every 1 of them! Easy to spot THEY GLOW YELLOW ~ don't have a black light? Get 1! Also the horn worm will be on top of your plants, early in the mornings! Day time, they go down to dark spots to hide > EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORMS
That black light idea is interesting. I will have to try it out.
It works excellent > it will show all the bad bugs in Bright Yellow> Like horn worms, squash bugs ect.
Last year we had probably 3 on our tomatoes. This year (2018) we moved our tomatoes to a new bed and so far we have picked off and killed a few hundred. They are persistent.
My granny had a huge garden like she was in the garden of eden. When I would go to stay with her she would sometimes have her shirt pocket FULL of tomato worms lol!! I think taste liked playing with them but my mom would freak out.
a good horn worm is a dead one i hate them they destroyed many of my tomatoe plants and please whats BT
I actually wondered how the hell a small hornworm got on my pepper
(I live on a flat, on 4th floor)
Information is usefull
Thanks!
it's Absolom the hooka-smoking caterpillar 🐛
i've always said and put money on it "plant a tomato plant in outer space, and the worm mysteriously is there too" 👀 always liked hawk moths never knew the two were related 👍
Found at least 20 of these little turds on my papaya plants. They had a feast!!! I found green ones and brown ones.
I saw droppings and I thought it was rat poop. 2 days later I found the big green worm. Scared the daylights out of me
i miss my tomato hornworm,now hes a Shpinx moth in the wild,he was given by a best friend,hes name was a caterpie,after he became a moth,i released him into the wild
We have one as a pet how did you keep yours til he morphed
@@lindsayborodin9647 idk,i just keep feeding it everyday and it burried it self into the ground,and it got brown,and soon after,i saw it just popping out of the ground,and he was a moth now
I wonder, can the droppings from the hornworm can be use as fertilizer?
I wonder too
I found a giant hornworm today while pruning my soursop tree....its is 4" long...bright green, with horn and red dots down the body....I thought hornworms were only on tomatoes, but ??? Never saw one this large. Anyone know what it is? Sounds like a tobacco hornworm. but are they common on soursop?
I pulled one of those of of my pepper plant one time and it bit me and drew blood.
Needless to say, it went flying prematurely!
I've never gotten bitten by one even when I tried to
@@Polstok2024 you must be the big green caterpillar whisperer.🤔
I have never seen a tomato worm before, it's always tobacco worms on my Tomatoes. 🍅
I think they're cute. 🙂
I ask the Lord too not let me get too many.
I don't mind sharing I know they have to eat as well.🌱
And I didn't know that it's a moth that lays the eggs.
I thought it was those small white and yellow butterflies that you see fluttering around in the Summer. 🌱 🦋
Tobacco horn worms are much more common but they defoliate just as well!
I did not know there was a tobacco hornworm. That is what decimated my tomatoes and peppers this year. Thanks for the clarification. Where do the moths lay the eggs, do you know?
They lay them on the leaves of the plant. They are hard to spot just like the newly hatched caterpillars. You usually don't see them until they have been growing (and eating) for a few weeks.
@@FamilyPlotGarden Thank you. Since then, I have bought a UV flashlight to ID them next year.
Thy are cute
Where do they come from??? When the daddy tomato hornworm loves the mommy tomato hornworm......
I use a black light at night. The horn worm will glow a light green when hit with the light. I take them off and toss by the bird feeders. Bird like them
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Hmm, so the majority of the search results on CZcams are misidentifying a tobacco hornworm for a tomato hornworm? Interesting. So I'm assuming that the tobacco hornworm can also be found on tomato plants then?
Yes! From a tomato farmers point of view, they're both the same. On our tomato plants it's almost always tobacco horn worms. Good thinking.
my dad told me back when I was a kid, never to touch a tomato worm because it'd bite me. I believed him and I was scared🐛😱
Here is the moth that lays the eggs.
m.czcams.com/video/S0qm_L_HPdM/video.html
What exactly is BT? Bacillus Thurengienses?
You are correct.
i thought it was a caterpillar looks like i got to get rid of them
It is
I thought they were butterfly caterpillars.
the moths are attracted by gourds they pollinate the flowers,best way to kill the caterpillar is to dust your plants with baking flour it makes them explode
By "baking flour" do you mean all-purpose flour, baking soda, or baking powder?
That is not a tomato horned worm you are showing
It is a tobacco horned worm
The six spotted spinx moth
Not the larva of the 5 spotted spinx moth
The tobbacco horned worm does not have white stripes
It has green on green stripes to accompany the black stripes
Also it does not have a red horn
It is a different color
Again for quick id white stripes tobacco horned worm
What are those little bitsy white bugs on my jalapeno fruit and stems ..... don't fly they walk like ants do
We asked the Family Plot experts. Here is what they said: czcams.com/video/fhtHd1NLebo/video.html
JUICY AND FAATTTTT!!!!
My friend cut two open and puked
ummmm no, I use a lighter or scissors 😄
My mother always burned them.
I don rubber gloves so I don't feel them too much but can get good grip.
How do you kill them?!? He mumbled it too quickly. Played it like 4 times can’t tell what he said.
You use a product called Bacillus thuringiensis (also known as Bt) It will kill caterpillars.
Liquid Sevin. Spray and dozens of baby hornworms appear on the ground writhing in agony.
You're talking about "Tomato" hornworms and showing "Tobacco" hornworms. Not a difference in the damage to a plant but coming from an educational institution I expect accurate representation.
I would expect a critic such as you to get "the facts" before making a fool of yourself.
IF YOU HAD OF LISTENED to the AUDIO and not just looked at the video you would have heard him say.... wait for it...... wait for it....
"That, by the way is not a tomato worm it is a tobacco worm you can tell the difference by the straight stripes or the V-shaped stripes V for victory on the tomato worm.".
@@lanam.3386 Okay Karen. Happy Gardening 😊
@@apriljberry Oh Pumpkin... I do believe YOU would be the Karen here. Typical narcissist... make an arse of yourself then point the finger at someone else. BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Later Karen🥴
Moths & caterpillars are ugly as hell ! Step on it but before lifting you foot off slide it back 👍
Lame!