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| Is there a specific time if year these guys decide to come out?
The last few weeks I've been noticing a lot of black balls on the ground under my tomatoes that im assuming is their sh*t. I've found a few big ones but then the next day there's more balls .. Is this time of year time for them or am I just starting to notice them? Where do they even come from and how could I get rid of them without actually searching for hours... |
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| Don't know about timing, but I had one in June. Then Saturday, there were three. Fortunately, parasitic wasps had done their thing on two of them. |
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| I am killing about 2-5 a day on just 3 plants for the past 2 weeks. But I live in the big riddled humid hell of NC |
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| I haven't had a single one all year! It may be because I was very diligent last year. I had a bunch of volunteer toms that came up far away from my garden, so I thought that I would experiment. When I found one with parasitic wasps on it I moved it to the volunteers. Then each one I found afterwards I moved it there also. Within days they would have parasitic wasps on them. I'm not sure if that helped or not, but it made me feel good! |
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| BT is the best. I don't think I would have had one plant after the Spring because of those little brats. Spray it on the veggies only, and before you see a mad breakout, and you should be fine I think! |
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| You can look for waste to help find the worm & pick it off. The moth comes out in Spring in S.C., then lays eggs on tomato plants. The worm eats his fill in a few days & falls to the soil below , then digs in. We are blessed with a long growing here & the worm become a moth & lays eggs again in July. So I get two crops of THW, but I only got 6 worms this year. Mostly because I hand picked them, tilled in the fall to kill most of the worms in Pupae form & rotate my crops. The wasps (2 kinds) help a lot. Trap plants help also. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Kill Tomato Horn Worm
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