Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits of your labor (literally) is the tomato hornworm. The caterpillars feast on the ...

Tomato hornworms, Manduca quinquemaculata, are large green caterpillars that devour tomato plants along with other nightshades including peppers, potatoes, and eggplant. They can also be a little ...

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 ...

If you’re country enough to grow your own tomatoes, you probably know about tomato hornworms. These finger-sized caterpillars can chew their way through LOTS of foliage, affecting growth and crop ...

As it gets towards the end of the summer growing season, you tend to be a bit less observant in the garden. Then one day you look out and your tomato or pepper plant is half gone. Look closely and you ...

DEAR JOAN: Can you please identify these green and white caterpillars that have invaded my tomato garden this year? They are light green with like a lime green strip running along their backs, white ...

One of the most loathsome garden pests, the tomato hornworm, is just as nasty as he looks. Despite its name, the “hornworm” isn’t a worm at all. This garden pest is actually a caterpillar, the larvae ...

I’m not a big fan of eating eggplant. The texture is mush and the taste is bland unless mixed with foods that actually contain flavor. As an ornamental, this member of the nightshade family is a ...

After umpteen years squashing snails in my yard, my mollusk problems have been greatly reduced. I’ve hunted at night with a flashlight in the rain. I’ve sullied my hard plastic garden clogs with snail ...