Need Natural worm remover PLZ!!!! HELP

cackleberries

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Please Help!!! My Tomatoe plants are being destroyed by these huge neon green Worms/Catepillars with this really ugly horn looking thing on there butt. I go through and pull the nasty buggers off daily and they just keep coming. They are eating my plants and the insides out of my tomatoes. Does anyone know how to get rid of them without toxics? other then plucking them one by one. Thx for any suggestions.
 

patandchickens

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Bt works when they are young and there are not lots of tomatoes setting yet, but at this point the thing to do is, yes, hand-pick them. Or use an implement of some sort to knock/brush/pull them off into a can you hold under the branch, but that's slower.

At night works best b/c they're not hiding then, but you can do it in daytime if you enjoy the challenge.

Chickens go CRRRRAZY for them, so they do at least have a use :)

Good luck, have fun,

Pat
 
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