Several types of caterpillars damage tomato plants in Missouri, but the tomato hornworm and the tobacco hornworm usually get the most attention because of the prominent horn on the last segment of ...

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 ...

The leaves of my tomato plant are being eaten by something. Some of the stems are completely bare of leaves. Is there anything I can do to protect my plants? I suspect you have a tomato hornworm or ...

If any of you have ever left a tomato plant unattended for a couple of days only to return to a stripped down plant, here is an interesting article from Michele Warmund, with University of Missouri ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you discover a caterpillar in your vegetable garden, you may consider it just as rude as the one Alice encounters in Wonderland. Rude, because they do what they want and eat what they want. While ...

"Several types of caterpillars can cause damage to tomato plants in Missouri. However, the tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) and the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) are often the most ...