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, ...

Readers continue to chime in on tomato hornworms, including this handy trick for tracking the critters. “The article about tomato hornworms on Nov. 16 mentions picking them off the tomato plants to ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: In cleaning up the garden I found a dried-up worm with little white things sticking out of the body. Any ideas on the find? — Jack, Indianapolis Dear Reader: The insect in question is ...

I’m standing next to one of our 4-foot-tall tomato plants trying to hunt down a tomato horn worm. I can see the damage — a stripped leaflet — and I note the collection of small droppings that have ...

For a gardener, the tomato hornworm is the worthy foe. The larva of the sphinx moth is almost the exact color of the tomato leaves, which makes it a challenge to spot unless doing so is your sole ...