[Auntiemogs]

I've merged two similar topics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_quinquemaculata

Please 'make it not so' auntie,  had a couple in the GH this week and hoped that they were 'abberations'.  I can't do the squishy thing (yes, I am a wuss) so I picked off the toms they were munching through and threw them outside...

[polly nator]

Here's your culprit? Photo taken last Sunday in Manchester where a friend had huge number of tomatoes nibbled at, hollowed out, then the woodlice moved in. All totally disgusting. I was here helping to rescue the remaining fruit and murder any remaining caterpillars. The infestation had come from nearby cauliflowers and the tomatoes were decimated  by Cabbage White caterpillars. I had not see them attack tomatoes before. So glad they were not mine.

[8doubles]

Here's your culprit? Photo taken last Sunday in Manchester where a friend had huge number of tomatoes nibbled at, hollowed out, then the woodlice moved in. All totally disgusting. I was here helping to rescue the remaining fruit and murder any remaining caterpillars. The infestation had come from nearby cauliflowers and the tomatoes were decimated  by Cabbage White caterpillars. I had not see them attack tomatoes before. So glad they were not mine.

Large cabbage white      http://www.downgardenservices.org.uk/cabwhitelge.htm

Small cabbage white      http://www.downgardenservices.org.uk/cabwhitesml.htm

Heaven forbid that they should ever start on my Toms !

[Eblana]

Went out to the greenhouse tonight only to find the dreaded Blight on some of the leaves - stripped these out and put them in the rubbish bin so hopefully I have gotten it in time.  Also found a very long pinky colored caterpillar (the color of the inside flesh of the tomato) couldn't do the squishy thing so I dropped him into a bucket of water to drown instead.  Will give them a shake in the morning to see what comes off them. 

[green_lolly]

I've had these critters decimate my plants too. Picked off loads and chopped them in half. The wasps came and feasted on the corpses. Oh my! Don't I sound blood thirsty?

I ended up removing the trusses and ripening them in a mini greenhouse propagation which has been quite successful.

Strangely only the tomato plants in one part of the garden have been affected.

[kathrose]

Would they be the things that are chomping on my pepper leaves.  No chillie peppers have been touched but the leaves look a mess.

[polly nator]

Kathrose, from what I saw they were chomping on EVERYTHING in the Manchester garden and were very plump and juicy.