Texas Gardening: Big, fat, green worm, 0 by Allwild

Allwild wrote:
I know I'm jumping in here late but....
First,
Beautiful butterfly Sheila!! That is neat what you do. I am trying to grow more flowers to attract butterflies.

SO... the other day I discovered one of my pepper plants stripped of leaves, the plant was half eaten to the stem! There were these strange blobs sitting on one of the few leaves left. I don't know if they are poo or some sort of bugs? LOL

I go looking thru the bug files to see if there is anything that looks like it but no luck. I go back out to get a picture and now there is only one leaf left and a bunch of little piles just like the ones up there in stephanietx's pic. So I'm taking a picture of the poo balls when I see it!!! LOL Sure enough there is that dern tomato hornworm hanging on the last leaf! That's what ate my pepper plant!!

I did go check my tomato plants (after going inside to get my reading glasses so I can see!!!!!!) and found many more! I'm glad I checked.

Sad but true story.

Surprisingly, the stripped pepper plant is growing new leaves!!