Ugly Cuss

[Les]

https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+tomato+horn+worm&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=-I84xvPuPNoOfM%3A

Neighbor was telling me about this ugly green caterpillar he found on his tomatoes the other day, his chickens wouldn't even touch it. I said it was probably a tomato horn worm. The next day I am in my tomatoes and I see stalks!   I knew that stinker was blending in somewhere.  Sure enough, I found it and I introduced to a brick!!!

[Perry]

Ugh. Beautiful and yet ugly all in one go.

[lazy shooter]

My first thought after reading the title, was that you had found a picture of Jack, brooksbeefarm.    I'm surprised the chickens didn't eat it.  My chicken rancher friends say chickens eat all bugs and such.  My wife now has seven chickens, but we are novice chicken ranchers and don't know much about them.  I do like eggs.

[brooksbeefarm]

It looks nothing like me, i have hair  Do you know the turn into a humming bird moth, weird and beautiful looking bug. Jack
PS when i throw them in the pond the catfish love them.

[Les]

Jack, I do know and I hated flattening it because I love to see that moth but when you start your plants from seed, plants win....worm loses!

[Jen]

Agreed Les! My daughter is an avid gardener of seed packet she can get her hands on, amazing what she can grow.

[neillsayers]

Just a couple of hornworms can defoliate a tomato plant seemingly overnight. My chickens seem to like em alright.

[Alleyyooper]

Humming bird moth.






I plant marigolds with my veggies and don't seem to have much of a problem with bugs. There was some kind of bug I had not see before on my pepper plants. I filler the hose end sprayer with dollar store dish soap and sprayed the plants down real well even under the leaves. Next day no more bugs.

   Al

[Les]

Alley, thanks for the photos.  The first time I ever encountered one of these was years ago.  I was working in my flower bed with my head down and all of sudden this "thing" buzzed me.  Thinking it was the biggest doggone bee I had ever seen, I freaked out and almost knocked myself out when I ran into the vent pipe outside the house.  I think my Dad up in heaven was probably rolling on the ground laughing his butt off!