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Garden State Pumpkins

Posted pictures of a catepillar in my diary must have been attacked by something that layed eggs all over it. Also found another one that was clean of eggs any ideas what do you thinK G?? We never did figure out the last one either!

9/23/2002 5:31:22 PM

North Ga

Watch out for that long green cat, Chuck!!! That thing can suck down a mater plant over night!! chomp!!chomp!! As for the other pic, Look's like a bad case of lice!! Spray with diazinon!! LMAO!!

9/23/2002 8:06:18 PM

Key West, FL

i found a tinny catapiler sucking on the blossem of my pumpkin. so no i kill all catapilers, i just kill any bug i see anywhere on my plants except spiders.

9/23/2002 8:18:10 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

Yo Pappy, Duff identified it as a tomato worm! Yikes...the white bumps are brachnid wasp eggs or something like that..Sez leave them alone because they love to eat tomato worms..yikes again! thanks Duff! Chuck

9/23/2002 10:20:47 PM

Long Island,New York

Havent sen the picture but sounds like the tomato horn worm with a cluster of parasitic wasp eggs in tow...kill the worm as it can do damge while waiting for the eggs to hatch.....G
(those beasties can get as big as your thumb !)

9/23/2002 10:38:07 PM

Korea

LIpumpkin is right. I was taught as a small child not to hurt the tomato horn worms with the parasites, as that is the best way to get rid of them. Let nature do it's thing. I get so worried as I see the pumpkin growers today so chemicle crazy. I grew many pumpkins and squash in Ohio in the 60's 70's and 80's. Had many in low 300's when that was considered BIG. As you know, the biggest problem in Ohio is squash vine bores. All I did for that was a squirt of Palmolive in a gallon of water, and spray the vine with that. Never had a bore after that. That was started my second year, after I lost all to bores the first year. The man from Ohio state fair that gave me my first seeds, then my second taught me that trick.

9/24/2002 12:52:13 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

actually it is a TOBACCO hornworm, the tomato hornworm has 8 white V shaped lines on it's back and the Tobacco hornworm has 7 as appears in the diary picture, the Tobbacco hornworm is more common than the Tomato hornworn and feeds on the same plants " notice that the caterpiller was attracted to the pack of Camels.

Glenn Peters

9/24/2002 8:33:13 AM

Topsfield, Ma.

roflmao...

9/24/2002 9:01:11 PM

Long Island,New York

Hmmm...can they carry the tobbacco mosaic virus then?

9/24/2002 10:18:34 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

no it is not transmitted by insects.

Glenn

9/25/2002 8:29:01 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

just a quick update. If you look real close at the "healthy one" like Glenn did you note also a bunch of black dots along his back. Well today thise black dots erupted small worms wriggled out and he ended up looking like the first one ...so don't get rid of the ones with black pin dots on them either the worms come out of there and pupate. took about an hour they all came out at once within two hours they were eggs.

9/25/2002 9:19:10 PM

Ga.

G,,,whats the difference between mosiac,,and tobacco mosiac???Which did I have?

9/25/2002 9:50:46 PM