Worm invasion!

We found some armyworms on our tomato plants today!  Noooooooo!  They ate through some of the largest tomatoes on the plant, but they didn't get them all.

The closer we looked, the more armyworms we found.  The pic at the top of the blog was taken after we had found THREE of them on one plant.

But before we were through, we found a DOZEN armyworms on two plants.  Big ones.  Small ones.  What looked like eggs.  They were all crushed, mercilessly.  Bastards.  They don't call them armyworms for nothing.  We got INVADED by a battalion!   

Fortunately, we still have a TON of flowers on the plants and there is a lot of fruit that is still good, but I have a feeling that we haven't seen the last of the armyworms.  The ravenous little freaks.

Strangely enough, or not, we've only had armyworms show up on the tomato plants on the roof.  All of the plants on the ground level have been bug-free.  


C'est le vie.  Sometimes the bugs get you.  Sometimes you get the bugs.

Hmmmm .... I wonder what North Dakota has to say about the armyworm.  Click here.