Tomato or Beet Armyworms

Spodoptera exigua

Beet armyworms. Tomato pests. Natural armyworm control. Nontoxic tomato plant pest control that kills armyworms.

The larvae hatch and begin to feed on the foliage around them.

Armyworm Identification

This is a thin green worm with yellow or white wavy stripes down its sides and back. In just 3-4 weeks, this tomato worm will become a silver moth about an inch wide.

Armyworm Damage

Once in a while you will find a green worm inside tomato fruit. This is probably a tomato armyworm.

Biological Pest Control

Another biological natural pest control for tomato armyworm is the polyhedrosis virus.

The easiest natural tomato pest control for home gardeners to find and use is BT. Bacillus thuringiensisis a bacteria that kills armyworms because it causes them to stop eating after they ingest it. The worms die of starvation.

BT is harmless to humans and pets.

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