Last week, we had whiteflies all over the tomatoes.
This week we had lots (way too many) of these big guys. Tomato hornworm (yuck).
The white rice-like thingies are wasp eggs. The wasp babies will eat the hornworm, and then the "grown-up" wasps will attach other hornworms. I did leave one or two hornworms that had the white eggs. The rest were removed and dunked into a bucket of water. They are very squishy and large. Yuck-o!
The kids tried to help but were all grossed out by the squish factor.
Enjoy your garden and may it be pest-free.
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How neat that you found the caterpillars with the wasp eggs. We found a big fat moth sleeping in our tomatoes and I'm wondering if we will end up with those caterpillars slso. I haven't found any eggs yet, so crossing my fingers it's something else.
Yea, my kids don't enjoy picking them off either but I make them. lol We haven't had the white flies though.
We haven't seen anymore this week - maybe they're all finished. I'm hoping. I want some tomatoes!
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We found two of those tomato worms earlier this summer. We pulled them from our precious tomato plant before they'd done too much harm, and stomped them! I hadn't seen any with those wasp eggs, though.
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