WTF is this giant mutant thing!!!

**jpeg666** · 08-19-2012, 02:05 PM

My dad called me out and said what is this? and pointed to his tomato plant and this is what I saw!

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I took it off the tomato plant and put him on the neighbors tree.

What is it? I have never seen any caterpillar looking thing that big in my life!

You can see how big it is when it is next to my finger!

**GeeTee** · 08-19-2012, 02:18 PM

its a hornworm. be prepared to pick lots of them off

**brimck325** · 08-19-2012, 02:30 PM

theres an organic type pesticide for catapillars called b.t. . was found in old rum distillery in carribean, pretty cool story if you look it up...peace

**stoned cockatoo** · 08-19-2012, 02:39 PM

Haha that first pic is awesome. Preety cool looking kinda looks tasty. Might be turning into a butterfly soon

**jpeg666** · 08-19-2012, 03:03 PM

So how big are these things when hatched? It couldn't have just appeared out of no where. I mean to get that freakin huge wouldn't it have to have been there for a long time?

**stoned cockatoo** · 08-19-2012, 04:43 PM

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_sexta

It's a tobacco-pilla give it a smoke

**mipainpatient** · 08-19-2012, 06:08 PM

these guys will decapitate your tomato plants overnight. Do not allow them any mercy and find the younger ones on your stems and kill them asap!

**RyanTheRhino** · 08-20-2012, 09:32 AM

that's a tomato horn worm and they will eat the fuck out of some tomatoes. they are huge and bled in so well. I dont notice them until i start to see the damage then i look close. The damage is leafless stems and the stems eaten till they are about 1/4 inch in thickness. Just looks like a dead stubby branch.