As tomato plants grow and yield small round tomatoes, another unexpected creature may appear: the Tomato Hornworm. Learn how ...

Tomato hornworm caterpillars have eight V-shaped marks on each side, and their horns are straighter and blue-black in color. They develop into the five-spotted hawkmoth.

If hornworms are destroying your tomato crop, you've likely tried a few DIY solutions. Get rid of these garden pests for good ...

Sphinx moths lay eggs on a variety of plants. While the hummingbird moth larvae aren't typically considered pests, other sphinx moths are notorious – including the dreaded tomato hornworm (larval ...

While it can be devastating to see the tomato plants you've lovingly cultivated destroyed overnight by hornworms, there's a good reason to avoid killing them.

Tomatoes are the most popular vegetable grown by gardeners. They are routinely dependable on producing fruit. Many can be grown in containers so that people with limited space can still ...

You can identify tomato hornworms by their bright green bodies with green-margined white stripes running down the length. Mature caterpillars can grow up to 4 inches long with a black horn at the ...

One is the tomato hornworm, better known to entomologists as Manduca quinquemaculata. The other is the tobacco hornworm or Manduca sexta. I doubt that there are any vegetable gardeners in the ...

Both tobacco and tomato hornworms are most commonly found feeding on leaves of tomato and tobacco, but will also feed on other plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), including Irish potato ...

The spotted tomato hornworm feeds on both the leaves and the fruit of tomatoes, but growing your tomatoes next to this herb will help keep these pests away.

Tomato hornworms feed on potato, tobacco, tomato, and other plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Other species of hornworms will feed on other plants such as your trees.