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DANG! My wife called me out to look at our baby pecan tree...two HUGE (easily over 4") FAT brown catapillers w/orange spots down each side. They were chewing up leaves at an unbelievable rate (actually pretty cool critters, cool to watch). I didn't want to kill 'em so I got scissors to cut the twigs they were on and toss 'em over the fence into the woods. One of 'em lunged at and tried to bite the scissors! A close look at the mouth made me think of the creature from the movie "Alien"! For a second I thought hey, these might make good bait! But after seeing one strike like a snake, no way I was gonna try and get it on a hook....hell it'd probably attack the fish! At least we didn't kill them, saved the tree (at the way they were going, I think it would have been stripped in an hour), and had a good chuckle. Nature is amazing!
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they will be back they eat up our tomato plants ever year you have to use seven dust to kill them
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Does anybody know what kind these are? Should've put him in a jar and fed him 'til he changes, then you could get rid of whatever he becomes. I've looked everywhere but can't find a pic of one like it. I'm not a bug geek, just curious.
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I think it's a HORN worm, but usually they're green and mostly eat tomato plants. We have caught 4 different ones on our mater plant. Devasating lil critters. I read up on them a little and like Jeff said, kill them with 7 dust or they'll be back.
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around my part of the country, we call them tobacco worms and they will eat up tobacco plants and tomato plants in one hell of a hurry
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| It appears to me to be the caterpillar stage of the Imperial Moth, Eacles imperialis, a very large moth with a wingspan up to almost 6". They are fairlly rare nowadays although they were quite common in years gone by when there wasn't such an abundance of artificial night lights. They have a habit of buzzing night lights and will stay around a light until daybreak when most are consumed by foraging birds. They eat a variety of deciduous leaves including pecan and particularly love the leaves of red and silver maple trees but they only do this in the caterpillar stage which doesn't last very long. They are still in fair number further North of Florida in the deciduous hardwood forests and woods from the Eastern slopes of the Rockies to the Atlantic seaboard.
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Same little bastards I found eating my small orange tree I planted last year!! It's coming back but they almost ate every leaf. I smashed their little butts into a thousand slimy pieces.
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