When I was inspecting the garden on Friday, I looked up into this tomato plant and saw the damage.  The leaves were chewed off at the top of the stem.  Oh No!!!  I knew what that meant:  tomato hornworm.  So I started looking for it, and there it was, just a couple leaves down from the damaged ones.  

 

So I cut off the stem (so I wouldn’t have to look at it anymore) and here is the hornworm.  YAK!!!  It was almost as big as my index finger.  

 

As I continued along the row of tomatoes, I found evidence of another one (you know the moth doesn’t lay just one egg.)  So I looked and found another hornworm.  Just as big as the first one.

 

I know they are part of the food chain, and some bird may go hungry, but I can’t support that kind of wildlife in my garden.  They will have to live somewhere else.  But not these two:  I squished them.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!