Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, the common caterpillar is one of the primary pests of nightshade plants. While feeding, they can skeletonize leaves, bore holes in tomato fruit ...

Tobacco hornworms have a red horn and white ... A female moth can lay up to 2000 hornworm eggs! The eggs will hatch in less ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...