How do you get rid of tomato worms?

Dale Ashby
by Dale Ashby
They are green same color of leaf

  4 answers
  • Mary Ann Zumwalt Smith Mary Ann Zumwalt Smith on Jul 22, 2017

    Go out at night when they are their busiest with a flashlight and pick them off. They are rather hard to see since they are the same color as the plant. but if you do this a few days, and keep a watch on them, you usually can get rid of them. The bad thing is they can strip a plant in just one night, so you have to be rather vigilant.


  • Jan26541248 Jan26541248 on Jul 23, 2017

    if you don't have many..each morning check them out..you should be able to see them..then pick them off and put them in a container of gas or diesel..so something toxic..

  • Liz Liz on Jul 23, 2017

    Sevin Dust - buy it at Home Depot, Lowe's, or any nursery. Dust the plant and they start falling off immediately. Sevin Dust works on lots of worms and pests!

  • Hma14729524 Hma14729524 on Jul 23, 2017

    If you want NATURE to work for you, you may be able to leave them alone and a wasp in the Ichneumon family will lay her eggs on the worm. The developing larvae eat the warm and kill it. The tiny cocoons look like grains of white rice attached to the worm. Once the wasp eggs hatch and begin feeding, the tomato worm {which develops into a large Sphinx moth) stops eating. Otherwise, the best natural way is to pick them off and destroy them in a jar of soapy water. Here in Virginia, the moths do all the work on my tomatoes!