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, ...

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 ...

Tomato hornworms, Manduca quinquemaculata, are large green caterpillars that devour tomato plants along with other nightshades including peppers, potatoes, and eggplant. They can also be a little ...

About this time of year many of us are finding insects eating in our vegetable gardens; most are welcome because they are eating each other and some not so much because they are after our prized crops ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moth Week is a perfect time to talk about the insects' impact on the garden. A most detested caterpillar foe to our tomatoes, the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta), becomes a lovely hawk moth in its ...

Introducing the latest in neural technology: the tobacco hornworm moth. Faint signals from a moth's visual cortex cause a refined six-inch-high robot to change direction, an innovation that come say ...

Tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta, seeks nectar from an filter-paper flower soaked in some chemicals from the scent of its favorite nectar source, the sacred datura flower, Datura wrightii.