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Anyone know? Don't want to destroy something beneficial but don't like the look of these much...


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I don't roll on Shabbos -
If those are the eggs of the hummingbird/hawk moth, then it will munch it's way through your tomato plants
They are lovely moths to watch feeding- can you sacrafice a few pototo plants to them instead???"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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Yep - I'll put them somewhere elsewhere. I'd never actually destroy them - I might put them around the JA's, or potatoes as you suggest. Just as long as they are far, far away from my tomatoes, that's fine!
Someone thought they might be ladybird/lacewing/similar eggs, but my money's on the Hornworms...I don't roll on ShabbosComment
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Manduca quinquemaculata is the 5-spotted hawkmoth, aka tomato hornworm, native to the US. I don't think we get it in the UK?
Macroglossum stellatarum is the hummingbird hawkmoth, and its caterpillars feed on bedstraw
Deilephila elpenor, the elephant hawk moth caterpillar eats rose bay willowherb, clarkia and fuchsias
I still don't know what laid the eggs on your tomato leaf though. Any chance you could grow them on in a jar until they hatch?
Last edited by Two_Sheds; 29-05-2010, 08:48 AM.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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