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, ...

Dan in Sterling writes: “What’s the best way to rid my garden of tomato hornworms?” That’s a timely question, Dan, as this is the time of year to be watching out for these tomato eating fiends! You’d ...

TOMATO PESTS: Caterpillars will feed on the foliage and flowers of ornamentals and the foliage and fruit of vegetables. Also, the tomato fruit worm eats holes in tomatoes. Spinosad and BT (both are ...

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 ...

Tomatoes are one of the easiest plants to grow in your garden. There are several varieties, but whichever you choose to go with, you can generally count on a decent harvest if you give them proper ...

Plant tomatoes; expect tomato horn worms. That may be an exaggeration; there was one year that we planted tomatoes and I never saw a single tomato worm. But I think that was a freak occurrence.

Q. I have grown tomatoes since I was a child but have never seen this — big, green, menacing caterpillars that are defoliating my plants and leaving black poop all over the deck. I looked them up on ...

QUESTION: My tomato has caterpillars! ANSWER: You betcha your tomato has caterpillars. It’s a tomato, it’s American summer on the Gulf Coast, the growing conditions are perfect for tomatoes and the ...

When we were little kids, one of the small thrills of summertime was to pull the tomato hornworms off my mom's tomato plants, drop them in a coffee can and then listen to the strange clicking sounds ...