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Old August 16, 2017   #11
brownrexx
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I have not seen any on my tomatoes nor have I seen any of their damage but last evening I saw one on a pepper plant. However it was totally covered with wasp eggs so I just left it alone. It did not seem to be doing much.

I read on another site that tilling disrupts their life cycle by 90% and I do till once a year. A poster from one of the Dakotas quit tilling in her garden and after 2 years she had dozens of hornworms so she will be tilling in the Fall. Prior to that she never saw a hornworm.
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