Tobacco Hornworm
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i love when they show up! since i never use pesticides, i feed them to my bearded dragon
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Just found one of these bastards going off on my cherry tomatoe plant too! Gotta evict it today!
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what a nice caterpillar. five stars.
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Pu-lease! It's the circle of life! Get over it.
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I love the wasps. They help a bit when the Hornworms try to devour my plants.
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I hate those friggen things. Just a single one almost killed my little Habanero plant & 2 others did major damage to one of my tomato plants.
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My mom told me about one at her work and she wanted me to see it so i gogled it because we were trying to figure out what it was and i had no idea how big these things are, how much do you think the eat intell its a moth?
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Actually this is the Carolina Sphinx moth Manduca sexta. The caterpillar has diagonal lines on it. The six spotted gray moth is not even a sphinx and looks nothing like this> Scientific name Spargaloma sexpunctata. But the Five spotted hawkmoth Manduca quinquemaculata is in the same genus so very close relation and similar visually. The difference is that the five spot larva is darker green with V lines and less common. sexta is the tobacco hornworm while quinquemaculata is the tomato worm
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I totally agree with you and I love raising these little guys. The only draw back is you need deep soil for pupation to do it.
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I'd say about four inches. I raise these guys. Check out my vids to see them. This one actually becomes the Carolina Sphinx.
Thanks, CombineWizard! I have corrected my info.
loganjw 4 years ago