Help – Wormy, Leaf-eating Caterpillars Destroy Tomatoes!

Help – Wormy, Leaf-eating Caterpillars Destroy Tomatoes!

Just found them this morning – small 4-5 mm long brown/blackish catepillars, eating the tomato’s leaves to frilly, lacy remnants. Anyone have any idea how these can be controlled?

For now, I just hand-smushed all that I could find – on the underside of leaves. Some tried to escape by dangling on lines, but I got them. I’ll keep trying to keep them down, but given they ate half of one big tomato overnight, I want to see if there are other things to be done.

I need help!

I need help!

trying my hand at this gardening thing

trying my hand at this gardening thing

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Strange season

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Some good news

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