![]() ![]() Or feed them to the chickens for a juicy treat! But if you see white rice-like organisms on the caterpillar…. With repulsive juicy caterpillars, gloves are the best option as the caterpillars usually have a death grip on the foliage and they are difficult to pick off. Handpicking is the best way to get rid of these nasty green monsters, but I avoid touching them. Hornworms love to eat foliage and since they are such large caterpillars, they have a big appetite which means they poop all over! So watch for bits of black slimy frass (droppings) on the lower leaves or on the ground. ![]() The first things you will notice about a hornworms presence is denuded branches and fruits with huge sections eaten out of them. Most of the time I spot the signs of a hornworm before I see the actual caterpillar. Those white things on the hornworm’s body are actually cocoons, the pupal stage of the braconid wasp Frass & Defoliation The juicy grass-green caterpillars can strip a plant overnight and then start demolishing the fruit. ![]() Nondescript brown moths lay pearl-like eggs on your tomato, pepper, or eggplant, from which the big green monsters will hatch and start to eat voraciously. Tomato Hornworms are really big green alien-like caterpillars that can munch through and devastate your vegetable garden. One of my most despised pests is the Tomato Hornworm. Working outside I encounter a lot of unusual pests and annoyances. ![]()
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