what worm and how to kill?
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Destryoying my tomato plants. Eats cherry tomatoes like drilling a hole through them. Now something eating holes in leaves on 1st year blackberry bush. Tried Bacillus Thuringensis and Spinosad. No improvement.
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16 oz hammer.
Looks like a fruit worm. |
I thought was fruit worm. How can I kill all its relatives. I killed this one but destruction continues.
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[QUOTE=NewbieGrower;713344]I thought was fruit worm. How can I kill all its relatives. I killed this one but destruction continues.[/QUOTE]
Is there a night light around the moth that lays the eggs is attracted by lights. what many of us call millers. Those pesky night moths. The same some what type of moth also produces the cut worm. here is but one. [IMG]https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.Zrc-sj5W4gSY9vcDYqwRjwEsEs&w=205&h=197&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7[/IMG] |
Only a spotlight that is motion-detected. Only on when I let dog out and he comes back in. What can I do to kill all the worms.
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BT is the only thing I know of besides sevin dust.
Then there are extremes beyond that. |
[QUOTE=NewbieGrower;713339]Destryoying my tomato plants. Eats cherry tomatoes like drilling a hole through them. Now something eating holes in leaves on 1st year blackberry bush. Tried Bacillus Thuringensis and Spinosad. No improvement.[/QUOTE]
Here is a link that may help. [url]http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/pests-and-problems/insects/caterpillars/tomato-fruitworm-corn-earworm.aspx[/url] [I][B]Tomato Fruitworm[/B][/I] 1. [B]Sanitation. [/B]Collect and dispose of any infested fruit before the insect completes its life cycle. 2. [B]Introduce parasitic wasps[/B]. Do not remove parasitized caterpillars. Instead, leave them to assist as a natural, biological control. 3. [B]Dusting with diatomaceous earth may kill larvae.[/B] 4. [B]Use of a biological pesticide such as [URL="http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/pests-and-problems/pesticides/bt.aspx"]Bt[/URL] can kill larvae during the warmest months[/B]. 5. [B]Use chemical pesticides[/B]. The pest has developed a resistance to many pesticides but the following pesticides are often used: esfenvalerate (Asana), methomyl (Lannate), azinphos-methyl (Guthion), [URL="http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/pests-and-problems/pesticides/carbaryl-sevin.aspx"]carbaryl[/URL] (Sevin), or [URL="http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/pests-and-problems/pesticides/pyrethrins.aspx"]pyrethrin[/URL]. These must be applied before the worm enters the fruit. 6. [B]Minimize local food sources.[/B] Avoid planting tomatoes near corn or other hosts of the fruitworm to minimize populations. |
I am getting a few of them as well but I figure that they are not in that many of my tomatoes and the end of the season is near so I just remove infested fruits and feed them to the chickens so that the worm can not mature and then lay eggs as a moth. I don't worry about it. I am still getting enough tomatoes to eat.
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I had them wipe out the whole garden one year.:cry:
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[QUOTE=brownrexx;713354]I am getting a few of them as well but I figure that they are not in that many of my tomatoes and the end of the season is near so I just remove infested fruits and feed them to the chickens so that the worm can not mature and then lay eggs as a moth. I don't worry about it. I am still getting enough tomatoes to eat.[/QUOTE]
Good idea about the chickens, lovely colored yolks from the tomatoes, I bet. I used to laugh at how excited the chickens would get over caterpillars or bugs given to them. Mine loved grated carrots, too. |
Mine follow me to the compost pile when I go out to dump my bucket of kitchen waste.
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[QUOTE=brownrexx;713371]Mine follow me to the compost pile when I go out to dump my bucket of kitchen waste.[/QUOTE]
Back when we lived in east Texas and had the farm, most of what I compost now went to the chickens and pigs, LOL. |
[QUOTE=Worth1;713347]BT is the only thing I know of besides sevin dust.
Then there are extremes beyond that.[/QUOTE] ^^^^This exactly. Problem solved. |
[QUOTE=ginger2778;713424]^^^^This exactly. Problem solved.[/QUOTE]
I had the nicest garden ever only to come home from Alaska to find all of my Earls faux (?) and I cant think of the others it slips my mind now all full of worm holes in the nice big juicy tomatoes. Oh it was hump or something like that. I just looked it up it was stump of the world. This week has been a bad week for memory for some reason.:lol: Any way I lost an estimated 400 pounds or more of tomatoes all in all to these worms. I was heart broken.:cry: |
[QUOTE=NewbieGrower;713339]Destryoying my tomato plants. Eats cherry tomatoes like drilling a hole through them. Now something eating holes in leaves on 1st year blackberry bush. Tried Bacillus Thuringensis and Spinosad. No improvement.[/QUOTE]
Ginger, I think he tried BT already without success. |
[QUOTE=imp;713430]Ginger, I think he tried BT already without success.[/QUOTE]
If the BT is fresh ( a big if!) and applied thoroughly, it will work,it has to by its nature.Takes a day to kill them, he might just be a little impatient. I get these every year, and BT always works. |
Bt is a wonderful product. It comes as a dust or liquid. we use a liquid and add a spreader sticker to make it adhere to the plant. use it on all cole crops and the tomatoes and peppers... anything that a worm would infest. as it eats the bacteria(Bt) it gets a signal that it is full and virtually starves to death. essentially killing the entire cycle of pest. the liquid is a better choice than the dust as the dust will rinse right off even with a heavy dew at this time of year.
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[QUOTE=ginger2778;713437]If the BT is fresh ( a big if!) and applied thoroughly, it will work,it has to by its nature.Takes a day to kill them, he might just be a little impatient. I get these every year, and BT always works.[/QUOTE]
I never would have thought of the freshness being important. Thanks, it may well be handy to know sometime. [QUOTE=clkeiper;713441]Bt is a wonderful product. It comes as a dust or liquid. we use a liquid and add a spreader sticker to make it adhere to the plant. use it on all cole crops and the tomatoes and peppers... anything that a worm would infest. as it eats the bacteria(Bt) it gets a signal that it is full and virtually starves to death. essentially killing the entire cycle of pest. the liquid is a better choice than the dust as the dust will rinse right off even with a heavy dew at this time of year.[/QUOTE] What do you use as a spreader sticker? I've never used BT. |
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Don't kill it, just smack it around a good bit, and tell him to go back and tell his friends that they'll get more of the same if they come messing in your garden.
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It's bacteria in spore form, extreme heat can kill it.It can go bad from a very long shelf life too. I always use the liquid type, and yes a spreader of a little squeeze of dish soap after mixed.
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use a spreader sticker if you have rain in the forecast. it is a different product. it allows some rain to fall without it being rinsed off of the plant. dishsoap can be used to break the tension of the water to allow it to be sprayed uniformly without running off the plant immediately but a spreader sticker makes it stick to the plant.
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