Tomato horn worms as "friends" :) - Page 2

kimpossible · June 21, 2006

OK, I'm cancelling my vacation to Costa Rica!

PeteD · June 21, 2006

Well said Feldon.

I do not recommend watching that video if you planning on vacationing in Central America anytime soon.

peppereater · June 22, 2006

ewww! I definitely prefer the first kind of "friend."

Goddessemer6 · June 23, 2006

That poor, poor woman...She seems fairly calm through out the whole ordeal, I'd have been frig gin' hysterical

svalli · June 28, 2006

Our son had also a "hornworm friend" last summer. It pupated in mid August and finally yesterday emerged from the cocoon as a Sphinx Moth.
Link to photos

We released the moth, even its offspring may cause trouble later.

shelleybean · June 28, 2006

Your daughter is much braver than I am! I found a tomato hornworm today and tried to pull it off with some tongs but he was really hanging on there. I still didn't want to touch it, even with my gloves, so I just cut the branch off with the creature on it. And I have two kids in diapers so you know what my hands touch several times a day and I still didn't want to come in direct contact with that hornworm!

Fert1 · June 29, 2006

Okay, I just watched the wormy video. Now I'm ready to take a spork and do a partial lobodomy on myself to get rid of the mental image left behind. EWWWWW! Me and my curiosity!

June 21, 2006	#16
kimpossible Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Z5b SW Ont Canada Posts: 772	OK, I'm cancelling my vacation to Costa Rica! __________________ *So Many Tomatoes ... So Little Time*

June 22, 2006	#18
peppereater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 99	ewww! I definitely prefer the first kind of "friend." __________________ Dave

June 23, 2006	#19
Goddessemer6 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NV zone9a Posts: 134	That poor, poor woman...She seems fairly calm through out the whole ordeal, I'd have been frig gin' hysterical __________________ ~Rose The beauty of being human is the ability to choose compassion over cruelty!

June 28, 2006	#21
shelleybean Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Virginia Beach, zone 8 Posts: 1,674	Your daughter is much braver than I am! I found a tomato hornworm today and tried to pull it off with some tongs but he was really hanging on there. I still didn't want to touch it, even with my gloves, so I just cut the branch off with the creature on it. And I have two kids in diapers so you know what my hands touch several times a day and I still didn't want to come in direct contact with that hornworm! __________________ Michele

June 29, 2006	#22
Fert1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: Upstate SC, Zone 7 Posts: 530	Okay, I just watched the wormy video. Now I'm ready to take a spork and do a partial lobodomy on myself to get rid of the mental image left behind. EWWWWW! Me and my curiosity! __________________ Holly

June 21, 2006	#17
PeteD Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: MA Z6a Posts: 72	Well said Feldon. I do not recommend watching that video if you planning on vacationing in Central America anytime soon.

June 28, 2006	#20
svalli Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Vaasa, Finland, latitude N 63° Posts: 524	Our son had also a "hornworm friend" last summer. It pupated in mid August and finally yesterday emerged from the cocoon as a Sphinx Moth. Link to photos We released the moth, even its offspring may cause trouble later.

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