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Lunabell

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5. It'll munch through your garden like a weed eater!

Reply to True Blue American (Reply #4)

Sat Nov 18, 2023, 02:58 PM

Nov 2023

Ripping and chewing until your plant is a stump, and in just a few hours! I once had several tomato plants that were devastated in just one morning by a herd of these hungry critters. 😫

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I found this on the patio this morning. [View all] k55f5r Nov 2023 OP

Looks like a horned tomato worm. (but, I'm not an entomologist) Lunabell Nov 2023 #1

Right you are. marble falls Nov 2023 #2

I am not either True Blue American Nov 2023 #4

It'll munch through your garden like a weed eater! Lunabell Nov 2023 #5

"what other plants it likes to eat." JoseBalow Nov 2023 #7

Noooo! Lunabell Nov 2023 #8

I believe the saying is: k55f5r Nov 2023 #10

They love tomatoes. You see onw True Blue American Nov 2023 #3

If it lives, it will become a beautiful Luna Moth WhiteTara Nov 2023 #6

If you see one with little white sticks in its back, leave it alone Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2023 #9