Jim

Glad we dont have them...my wife would have a heart attack...and they would be really bad for all our gardens

n2stitches

The caterpillars found on tomato plants turn into Hummingbird moths. Plant a "host" tomato plant for them. No problem. Google hummingbird moths. They are beautiful.

Boni53

Ladies,
Here in our fields we call it a tobacco worm. Of course, they can wipe out a patch of tomato plants. Most fun to pull off and squish,(only if he has eaten a tobacco leaf).

IdahoSandy

Looks kinda like like a tomato worm. Pretty though.
IdahoSandy

Joan

We used to have oodles of these when we grew tomato plants.

They love to eat tomato leaves and always did a lot of damage.

We would encourage my son (3 or 4 years old at the time) to stomp on them with his cowboy boots which he thought was great fun.

lenette

This looks just like the ones my daughter buys for her bearded dragon to eat! He's so lazy, but when he sees one of these, he comes to life!

jojo47

Neat! I haven't seen a cecropia moth caterpillar since I captured one as a kid, put it in one of my mom's empty quart jars and watched it spin its cocoon. One spring day I came home from school to find a beautiful moth!

mim

I've been picking off tomato horn worms from my plants -- 4 yeaterday and 3 today -- they are 2 to 3 inches long -- UGH !! nasty things -- and they can strip a plant of all the leaves in a short time

Not my fav job -- Mim -- But when my kids were small they loved to see them

pollym44

If I had run into that creepy thing I would still be running and screaming, screaming and running, and at my age that ain"t easy!!!!! :shock: :XD:

nena

Ok I had a long shudder. I hate these things. Give me a snake anytime.