I didn’t take a picture of anything yesterday, so here’s something from my camera roll. It’s a picture of a tomato worm – a giant, tomato-plant-eating critter that would have eventually turned into a tomato worm moth. The moths are giant, too, and look a little like hummingbirds. I remember them from my Grandpa Hummel’s farm. He would have us swat the moths with fly swatters.
I cut the branch off of the tomato plant and dropped it into my yard waste bin, which got picked up last Thursday. Good-bye, tomato worm.
He’s pretty disgusting…but somehow reminds me of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. Was that ‘pillar modeled after tomato worms, I have to ask?
Your website was loading slowly this morning, so I read the text before the photo came up. I’m not ashamed to say that I braced myself a little bit. God made lots of interesting creatures, but some of them certainly are kind of icky.
Those things are evil.
Those beasts ravaged our tomatoes this year. Check it out: https://kleckmusic.wordpress.com/2024/08/15/war-on-worms/
They grow them big in California!!