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, ...

Tomato hornworms (Manduca quinquemaculata) can cause serious issues for your tomatoes. Not worms at all, these are caterpillars that can quickly eat tomato plants down to nubs. What many gardeners don ...

Question: What can you tell us about those big, ugly green single-horned tomato worms? Where do they come from? How can we prevent them? Answer: Tomato and tobacco hornworms are two huge caterpillars ...

Sometimes a pest is so intriguing you almost wish it would appear in your garden. Almost. Take the tomato hornworm, which feasts on tomato plants and their relatives, such as peppers and eggplants. In ...

Q: What kinds of caterpillars should I be controlling now? I know they will start becoming a problem soon. A: The principal insect that infests many vegetables in the tomato family, as well as grapes, ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that tomato fruitworm caterpillars silence their food plants' cries for help as they devour their leaves. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...