A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Manduca sexta
The Tobacco hornworm is green with seven diagonal white lines on the sides and a curved red horn. The Tomato hornworm has eight V-shaped marks and a straighter blue-black horn.
This hornworm was on a Sweet 100 tomato plant. We were gone a few days and it ate most of the leaves, but left enough for the plant to recover.
Sweet 100 tomato plant; this small prolific tomato does well in the spring and fall in Texas. There are two tomato hornworms that attack tomatoes, so you must keep a daily eye on the plant.
Spotted on May 6, 2012
Submitted on May 8, 2012
1 Comment
Cool!