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| Tomato Caterpillars, these
guys also like to hide among the leaves, the tip is to cut away the leaves around the
fruit, so they have no place to hide, maybe a predator will come along and make a meal of
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| Throw the damaged fruit in the rubbish bin, not the compost heap. |
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| What a mess, how to prevent these pests?You could
try spraying plants with garlic, pyrethrum or molasses,and try companion planting, or just
pick them off the plant/fruit jump up and down on them, until they're squashed dead. see
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A Corn grub munching away on what was a good cob of corn,
partly destroying the cob. The only thing is you don't realise that they are there
until it's too late, the damage is done. Sometimes they will leave a telltale sign that
they are there, by leaving a sawdust trail on the top/outside of the cob. If you see this
sawdust trail pull the top of the cob apart pull the grub out and destroy it and re-cover
the cob. How to grow Corn |