Re: pest identification again??
At 03:52 PM 7/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I'm seeing so many new and
>interesting bugs and caterpillars in my garden this year, I just HAVE to
>find out what they are!
>
>My latest quest is to find out what this giant (by my standards, anyway)
>green caterpillar is. I've gone to the butterfly website, which lists a
>great many moth and butterfly caterpillars, but mine isn't among them.
>It's about 4 inches long, lime green, smooth, (no *eyes* on the front
>like a tiger swallowtail), but has a distinct *horn* on the back end . .
>. . .so what is it? Anywhere on-line you like to get answers? I can't
>even tell you what it eats because it was crawling through the grass
>when I found it . . . . .The robins love them tho - I've seen them
>eating them often this summer.
>
>Thanks in advance for any information!
>
This is a tomato hornworm, "child" of a sphinx moth. They fancy other
plants, such as eggplants, petunias, tomatilloes, chiles, Damson plums,
chokecherries, etc., as well as tomatoes. It's about to pupate at that
size. Margaret L
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