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Help I have big green (3 to 4 inches) caterpillars on my brugmansia (angel trumpet) plant. My plant does not look very healthy. What can I do to get rid of it or off my plants. These caterpillars are wicked creepy. I'm not into killing things but my plant is being eaten. I'm not sure if it is a tomato worm.
Monica
Brugs are one of the host plants for tomato & tobacco hornworms. You can move them along onto an alternate host plant as suggested in the article, or you can kill them... I'm not sure what other suggestions to make. I don't know of anything to spray your plants with to make them distasteful to hornworms without actually killing the hornworms (and they'll die if they can't find another food source, anyway), but I suppose you could try various concoctions of soapy water, garlic, etc.
I have them. Recently found a big, fat, green one on top of my healthy Brandywine tomato plant. Since it was so large, my logic was to leave it. I was hoping that it was ready for its next stage of developement and wouldn't do much more damage.
Not sure what happened to caterpillar but it ate a lot of leaves plus small tomatoes. So much for my logic!
These things are hard to deal with. Leave them and watch your plants disappear or you can turn them into green goo by stepping on them.
If you let them run there natural course you can watch the moths pollinte your gourd house vine blossoms late at night which is awesome.
