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

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

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 ...

These are either tobacco hornworm or tomato hornworm. Besides being fat and up to 4 inches long, these caterpillars have diagonal white stripes on each side of their body, and what resembles a horn ...

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 ...