I pruned my tomato plants today and there were a lot of green caterpillars on the leaves, could that be cabbage worms? They look like the ones shown but I'm not growing anything from the cabbage family and I'm in the UK. We have a lot of white butterflies/moths. I've taken two into a box with some trimmings to see what they'll develop into as a cool project for the neighbour's kids, I hope that wasn't a bad idea 🙈. Thank you for such informative video ❤️
Hmmm, white moths does indicate cabbage worms/loopers. There are some armyworms that can be green (usually they are brown/yellow, but we've seen green versions). If you want to implement floating row cover to protect the plants from moths landing on them, that will keep the infestation down to a minimum. Keep us posted on how the project goes.
Tomato plants can get horn worms. They are green with a little horn on the back end of their body. They can destroy a tomato plant very quickly. They get quite large within a couple of days. If you notice leaves disappearing. It could be a horn worm. I pick them off as soon as I see one and feed them to the chickens.
@@wandashavis7411 thank you but they are definitely not tomato hornworms. They look exactly like the cabbage worms shown in the video and I do have a lot of white butterflies around so I'm guessing it's those. My caterpillars died so I never got to see them develop into butterflies to find out for sure though!
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I pruned my tomato plants today and there were a lot of green caterpillars on the leaves, could that be cabbage worms? They look like the ones shown but I'm not growing anything from the cabbage family and I'm in the UK. We have a lot of white butterflies/moths. I've taken two into a box with some trimmings to see what they'll develop into as a cool project for the neighbour's kids, I hope that wasn't a bad idea 🙈. Thank you for such informative video ❤️
Hmmm, white moths does indicate cabbage worms/loopers. There are some armyworms that can be green (usually they are brown/yellow, but we've seen green versions). If you want to implement floating row cover to protect the plants from moths landing on them, that will keep the infestation down to a minimum. Keep us posted on how the project goes.
Tomato plants can get horn worms. They are green with a little horn on the back end of their body. They can destroy a tomato plant very quickly. They get quite large within a couple of days. If you notice leaves disappearing. It could be a horn worm. I pick them off as soon as I see one and feed them to the chickens.
@@wandashavis7411 thank you but they are definitely not tomato hornworms. They look exactly like the cabbage worms shown in the video and I do have a lot of white butterflies around so I'm guessing it's those. My caterpillars died so I never got to see them develop into butterflies to find out for sure though!