I live in SC and have just searched the web to try to find this pest. All sites mention that tomatillo plants don't have many pests. This worm/caterpillar has been a pest! about 50% of the tomatillos had holes in the husks and this worm is the biggest I found so I took a picture. Please help ID this and if you know how to prevent it/get rid of it organically. Thanks for your help! Also, this is my first year growing tomatillos.
Ok, I feel silly...I just guessed at it being the tomato fruitworm and although my web searches did not bring anything up when I tried to find pests of tomatillos, as soon as I included tomato fruit worm in my description, a bunch came up. I looked at them and it appears that this is my culprit. I'll mark it closed...first time I replied to myself...
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it's heliothis sp.
