If you grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or other nightshades, there’s a good chance that you’ve encountered large green caterpillars feeding on your plants. Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, ...

This tiny wasp is natural pest control for the hornworm caterpillar, bane of summer gardeners. Tomato growers know the tobacco hornworm can destroy a plant overnight. But a tiny natural ally helps ...

Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits of your labor (literally) is the tomato hornworm. The caterpillars feast on the ...

Tomatoes are a satisfying garden crop, and most gardeners enjoy growing them either in vegetable beds or in containers. Depending on the variety, some tomatoes can have growing challenges, including ...

I saw your recent column about tomato fruitworms, and was wondering if this pest also eats leaves. The leaves of one of my tomato plants are being eaten by something. A couple of the branches now have ...

Only those old enough to remember growing tomatoes before Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) know what a nightmare we faced every year. The huge tomato hornworms inevitably show up in our summer crop to ...

Let’s play Clue….no, not the board game. This is Garden Clue. Clue No. 1: Dark green to black-colored pellets on the ground and on some leaves of tomato. Clue No. 2: Tips of tomato stems are ...

While squirrels, deer and woodchucks are generally the most destructive consumers of garden tomatoes on Staten Island nowadays, the caterpillars known as hornworms pose a more subtle threat. The ...

Gardeners, for the past week or so, each time I go outside to check my tomato plants, there is an uninvited guest munching away. Twice each day -- morning, and evening, I examine each of my tomato ...

I recently started having some trouble with my tomatoes. Something was eating them, chowing down on the ripening tomatoes that dangled from the top of the plant, stripping the leaves from the branches ...

Growing a vegetable garden is plenty of work on its own without worrying that your efforts will be ruined by hungry pests. One of the crops where this is the biggest concern is tomatoes, which attract ...