Posts Tagged: hornworm
Godzilla Lives!
Remember Godzilla? The 1954 iconic film, Godzilla, featured what Wikipedia calls "an...
This three-inch-long tobacco hornworm appears to be ready to eat more tomato leaves (or the photographer). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
"Godzilla" roaming around her habitat. Tobacco hornworms (Manduca sexta) become Carolina sphinx moths, also known as hawkmoths or tobacco hawkmoths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Hornworms Are Not Your Friends
If you love tomatoes, you probably hate hornworms. Frankly, the garden's not big enough for...
This hornworm is feeding on a pepper plant. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
When the caterpillar or larva is disturbed, it "rears up into an Egyptian sphinx-like pose," says entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The frass (droppings) from a hornworm. It's a tell-tale sign you have hornworms in your garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The tomato hornworm turns into a sphinx moth or hummingbird moth (family Sphingidae). (Wikipedia Photo)
Nightshade, More Than Tomatoes.
By Cindy Watter, UC Master Gardener of Napa County The Solanaceae, or nightshade family,...
Nightshade vegetables. (naturalhealthtechniques.com)
Jimson weed. All members of the Datura genus are toxic. (natureid.blogspot.com)
Tomatoes. (borntogrow.net)
Soil should be 60 F before planting tomatoes. (cooper-atkins.com)
Solanaceae love all-day sun. (designtrends.com)
Plant tomatoes deeply--they grow more roots. (UCANR.edu)
Provide tomatoes with support. (homestead-and-survival.com)
Tomato hornworm, in case you haven't seen one. Looks fearsome, but just wants to eat tomatoes. (UCANR.edu)
Bell peppers. (snaped.fns.usda.gov)
Plant peppers when night temps are reliably over 55 F. (maudesport.com)
Protection, if needed. (almanac.com)
Eggplant flowers. (cultivatetoplate.com)
Potatoes are also in the family. (jessicagavin.com)
Hilling potatoes. (veggiegardener.com)
Solanaceae family characteristics. (slideshare.net)
Summer's Voracious Eater.
By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County The tomato hornworm that so many gardeners detest...
Tomato hornworm--the horns are on the rear end. (UC ANR)
Sphinx moth (Master Gardener Assn of San Diego)
Tomato hornworm pupa.cocoon (UC IPM)
Hard to see hornworm (Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Durham County)
Tomato hornworm damage (UC IPM)
Hornworm with frass--how you can tell they've been eating your tomatoes; this is on leaves below the caterpillar (UC IPM)
Hornworm with braconid wasp larvae (Univ of Maryland Extension)
Anise swallowtail--caterpillars not having been host to parasitic wasps become this pretty garden visitor (Allan Jones, UC ANR)
Sphinx moth ..... (UC IPM)
.... starts out like this tomato hornworm egg (Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Durham County)
Hornworms
By Michelle Ramsey, Butte County Master Gardener, June 28, 2013 If...