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tomato damage

armeriaarmeria Posts: 22
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What is eating our greenhouse tomatoes?   Black droppings and what look like greenish/white eggs on the stems.  No slug trails.  As you can see, the leaves are also being eaten.
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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Slugs/snails
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They look a bit like mouse droppings to me. Do they eat tomatoes?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • armeriaarmeria Posts: 22
    Thank you Keen but lazy & bertrand-mabel

    I hadn't thought of mice!  The black droppings could be mouse droppings,  What are the things that look like eggs, though?   Slugs lay white eggs don't they?
  • armeriaarmeria Posts: 22
    Photo came out rather too big!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yes but they're pearly
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Slugs.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Squirrel droppings looked similar on Google, but they're more likely to pick up the fruit to eat it
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • armeriaarmeria Posts: 22

  • armeriaarmeria Posts: 22
    armeria said:


    I have just found this caterpillar!   Maybe the caterpillar is eating the leaves and a mouse is eating the tomatoes -  and hopefully the caterpillar for dessert!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Just seen this thread ... was going to say those could be caterpillar droppings ... what goes in must come out ... and now I'm even more certain 🐛

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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