I think this is a small caterpillar chilling inside one of my cucumber blossoms, but I can’t figure out if it’s a beneficial bug or something that’s going to tear up my plants. Image searching isn’t showing anything that looks close either. Any ideas? I’m in the Harahan area
I feel like I am going crazy trying to figure out what to do about the leaf miners eating up my tomato leaves. At first I was leaving them be, because I was under the impression that since I don’t eat the tomato leaves it’s really just cosmetic damage and not affecting the plant. But then a friend said the damage from the leaf miners was sucking energy away from the plant and I should prune so I have been pruning… but it feels like if I keep pruning all the leaves eaten by leaf miners I won’t have very many leaves left. Guidance here would be very much appreciated. I am in zone 9b if it matters. This is my first year gardening and growing anything if that wasn’t obvious 😅