I had two bouts with them in the early part of the spring; they would eat through a tomato. At first I would crush them and toss the tomato, but then found if I left the tomatoes on the plant more would eat the same tomato. I found 28 in one cherry tomato.
They for the most part left the SunGolds and Esterina's alone and went for the red and dark colored cherry tomatoes. If they attacked a large tomato, I learned to leave it also.
It seemed like the tomato's made them drunk; they were so easy to crush and kill.
Then they were gone and I never sprayed them.
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