Kenichiro Itami, who led the team of researchers, told Interesting Engineering, "Our team has been conducting research on ...

The tobacco hornworm, however, welcomes that poison. This little green caterpillar feasts on nicotine-containing leaves at levels that would kill other animals.

So, what do hornworms eat besides tomato and tobacco plants? We’ve already given you a little clue — tomato and tobacco plants are part of a family of flowering plants called nightshades. There’s ...

Tobacco cutworm caterpillars can convert [6]MCPP to [6]MCPP-oxylene far more effectively than laboratory settings. Photo credit: RIKEN ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars are large enough to be imaged with the same instruments used for human patients. Image credit: Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, courtesy of ...

Previous studies had shown that when tobacco hornworm caterpillars feed on tobacco plants the fragrances the plant releases become more attractive to one of caterpillar's natural enemies: Geocoris ...

An international team of scientists used tobacco hornworm caterpillars as an alternative to rodents in experiments to study gut inflammation. The caterpillars may also prove useful for studying ...

Tobacco hawkmoth caterpillars specialize on very few host plants, including the leaves of Datura wrightii and the devil's claw Proboscidea parviflora (named for the horned seed pods).

A combined defense of different chemical defense substances could result in a negative interaction and mutual detoxification, according to a new study on the wild tobacco species Nicotiana ...