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Did you know this about Tomato Hornworms?

I see them a lot on my tomato plants but never on the peppers even though I have 5X as many peppers only a few feet away... might be that I'm growing herbs nearer the peppers which repel them, or they (momma) just realizes softer tomato stems are easier to eat so that's where the eggs are laid.


Seems like every insect in my garden takes this kind of preference, has their own preferred diet and sticks to it. Stink bugs eat the squash, beetles and ants eat the okra, monarch butterfly larvae eat the dill, little gnat like things eat the leafy greens, but for the most part nothing prefers the peppers so they get left alone.

I take that back, sometimes early in spring the young peppers get hit by aphids but they get wiped out by ladybugs.
 
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