{"id":110,"date":"2008-08-06T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:38:52","slug":"the-damage-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2008\/08\/06\/the-damage-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The Damage Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little did I know when I was admiring this sphinx moth earlier in the spring of the year, that it would produce offspring that would turn into a monster worm that would try to decimate my tomato crop. I found three tomato hornworms in my tomato patch this morning, and much damage was already done.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/easternsun\/2396638788\/\" title=\"white lined sphinx moth by Spinning Away, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2148\/2396638788_ba27d7214e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"white lined sphinx moth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>White Lined Sphinx Moth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/tomato_hornworm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomato Hornworm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I am not certain that this moth was the precursor to the worm, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegedge.umn.edu\/vegpest\/hornworm.htm\">U of MN web site<\/a> image at the top of the page describing the hornworm looks alot like the same Sphinx moth that I photographed last spring.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the sure sign that these worms have invaded your tomato patch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/hornworm_damage.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomato Hornworm Damage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After photographing the hornworms I left the executions to Ron, as I often do. I hate killing just about anything but ants, but these guys are eating my food, so it must be done.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<br \/>\nCarol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little did I know when I was admiring this sphinx moth earlier in the spring of the year, that it would turn into a monster worm that would try to decimate my tomato crop. I found three tomato hornworms in my tomato patch this morning, and much damage was already done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[184,185,183,361],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetable-gardening","tag-hornworm","tag-tomato-growing","tag-tomato-hornworm","tag-vegetable-gardening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}