Tomato Hornworm - Large Green Tomato Plant Eating Caterpillar

I have been neglecting my garden due to lack of time. When I got the opportunity to check it today I got quite a surprise. One of my tomato plants had been eaten by a large green caterpillar. After doing some research on Google, I discovered that this thing is called a Tomato Hornworm due to the fact that they eat Tomato Plants (and Tobacco Apparently).

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Science & Technology

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• Tomato Hornworm
• Tobacco Hornworm
• Organic Gardening
• Garden Pests
• TapQ

[oianyonghaseyo]

What natural predators does this thing have, being so big? I mean other than Bear Grylls.

[wayniac917]

bugs usually dont freak me out but when i reached into my tomato plant to get a nice red tomato and grabbed a hold of one of these accidentally it freaked me the f out. i hate these things because you can barely see them because they blend in so well.

[InDeepSchit]

I saw a smaller green caterpillar (different species i think) and when I picked it up, the thing gave off a scent that smelled like pledge cleaner. No joke. It was lemony fresh.

[UntitledKirk]

@oianyonghaseyo He'd eat it for the protein.

[maliwahtallhei]

I saw one of those when I was a kid...the one I saw had orange and red spikes on its head

[TheCtk97]

i found a huge green bug about as wide as a quarter and as long as a cell phone it had a huge red thorn on its head and when i picked it up it tried to stab me! anyone know what the bug is called?

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

@oianyonghaseyo got tap water, make it into a soup of my own piss.

[nah515]

all he needs is a pipe and it the caterpillar from alice in wonderland

[Touification]

@oianyonghaseyo Tiger beetle Larvae

[chuggafan5]

hes a biggun

[JULIEJO7]

wow, i just discovered the same thing. Where are all the leaves? when I fallowed the bearin plant it lead me to the caterpiller. There are about 9 of them on 2 plant bushes and they ate the tomato also, The white things on the backs of some of them freaked me out. We are going to investigate all the clips, thanks for your. I am in Iowa, and there obviousllly isn't a short of those worms here.

[alexene66]

hi, believe it or not, thee are being whiped out, not around as much and turn into a beautiful spinx moth, hope you did not kill him, i live in ca. they are hard to come by now adays as allot of butterly and beautiful moths