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fasttense

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2. Spinosad

Reply to Paper Roses (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2015, 09:37 AM

Jul 2015

It's an organically approved plant eating bug killer. It was discovered in the soil outside of a rum distillery. It is a bacteria that affects an insect's gut. Anyway it has several versions of it so make sure you get the one that kills catapillars. It is effective but only lasts about a week, less if it rains. It is absorbed by the plant and when a bug eats the plant it kills the bug.

It is more effective than BT but it breaks down very quickly.

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What is the best product to kill Tomato worms? [View all] Paper Roses Jul 2015 OP

Diatomaceous earth or Bt should work Major Nikon Jul 2015 #1

Spinosad fasttense Jul 2015 #2

gloves? GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #3

Do you mean the big hornworms? femmocrat Jul 2015 #4

I do the same thing. Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #5

The big tomato worms (hornworms), or smaller ones that burrow into the fruit (fruit worms)? NRaleighLiberal Jul 2015 #6