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We have been battling tomato horn worms by picking them off day and night. We go out right after dark and strip them off as they strip our plants and again in the early morning and pick more off. After decades of raising tomatoes I've never had them hit this hard before.
We have been battling tomato horn worms by picking them off day and night. We go out right after dark and strip them off as they strip our plants and again in the early morning and pick more off. After decades of raising tomatoes I've never had them hit this hard before.
They glow under black light, if that helps you any.
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They are easy to see with a flashlight even. The big problem is that there are about 16 generations or sizes of them to get rid of...
I hate them, and they scare me. They fight back. I have to go out tonight, because while my tomatoes are fine, something voracious finds the pea plants tasty. See what I can find and spray with BTU.
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I hate them, and they scare me. They fight back. I have to go out tonight, because while my tomatoes are fine, something voracious finds the pea plants tasty. See what I can find and spray with BTU.
It's easy to pick off the big ones. The tiny ones that will do a ton of damage and become big ones overnight that make my blood boil.
You could try a mixture of tobacco seeped in water with soap and dish detergent and spray it on the plants. That worked reasonably well when we gardened in West Virginia. If it’s really bad, I’d consider a light dusting of Sevin On the foliage as a last resort
After 2 years of tomato worms, a wide variety of aphids and spider mites this year has been relatively pest free (knock on wood). I planted all kinds of flowers and our bee, bird and butterfly pop is super good.
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You could try a mixture of tobacco seeped in water with soap and dish detergent and spray it on the plants. That worked reasonably well when we gardened in West Virginia. If it’s really bad, I’d consider a light dusting of Sevin On the foliage as a last resort
I have Sevin and am not opposed at all to using it. As a toddler I drank a container of DDT that a neighbor had mixed up to kill ants I think and am nor worse for the wear after they took me to the hospital and had my stomach pumped out. Sevin has always been my go to for most critters that want to take what is the fruit of my labors. I will say this. It must be applied so as not to affect the pollinators. There is a time and a way to apply it so the target gets zapped and the crop protected. I thought we would be out watering tonight but we must have just got an inch or more of rain. I think bed time is coming early without worry about the bugs til morning and no worries about rain on the peas(zipper cream peas, not green peas) and we have 2 rows of okra that is growing like weeks. This is a learn as we go with a different soil type and totally different climate that we have ever been in.
I have Sevin and am not opposed at all to using it. As a toddler I drank a container of DDT that a neighbor had mixed up to kill ants I think and am nor worse for the wear after they took me to the hospital and had my stomach pumped out.
Funny. I lived overseas as a tyke. The local third world country I grew up in would send out DDT trucks to spray DDT everywhere. We school kids would trail after them and jump up and down in the milk-like puddles they left and wander home soaked head-to-toe in the stuff.
I have Sevin and am not opposed at all to using it. As a toddler I drank a container of DDT that a neighbor had mixed up to kill ants I think and am nor worse for the wear after they took me to the hospital and had my stomach pumped out. Sevin has always been my go to for most critters that want to take what is the fruit of my labors. I will say this. It must be applied so as not to affect the pollinators. There is a time and a way to apply it so the target gets zapped and the crop protected. I thought we would be out watering tonight but we must have just got an inch or more of rain. I think bed time is coming early without worry about the bugs til morning and no worries about rain on the peas(zipper cream peas, not green peas) and we have 2 rows of okra that is growing like weeks. This is a learn as we go with a different soil type and totally different climate that we have ever been in.
I start with the home brew first before the move to Sevin. A few years ago we were hit with an unGodly hatch of grasshoppers that were eating everything, especially my corn. Sevin put a stop to that.
But you’re right- it has to be applied at the right time, follow the instructions and you may have to shield other plants while applying.
In the past I’ve had unpleasant results with Sevin on collards or other greens where the chemical taste permeated the vegetable which made it entirely ruined.
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They fight back. I have to go out tonight, because while my tomatoes are fine, something voracious finds the pea plants tasty. See what I can find and spray with BTU.
Sevin has always been my go to for most critters that want to take what is the fruit of my labors. I will say this. It must be applied so as not to affect the pollinators. There is a time and a way to apply it so the target gets zapped and the crop protected. I thought we would be out watering tonight but we must have just got an inch or more of rain. 
I think bed time is coming early without worry about the bugs til morning and no worries about rain on the peas(zipper cream peas, not green peas) and we have 2 rows of okra that is growing like weeks. This is a learn as we go with a different soil type and totally different climate that we have ever been in.