Articles About Tomato Worm

Common Types of Cocoon Worms

Silk worms are often confused for worms, but they are not a member of the worm family at all. Instead, they are caterpillars that create a cocoon to complete the transformation process from caterpillar to butterfly.

Horn Worm

Two of the most popular types of horn worms are the tomato horn worm and the tobacco horn worm. These worms consume large amounts of plants and vegetables.

Caring for the Tomato Hornworm

If tomato hornworms are in your garden, chances are, they love what you’re growing. The tomato hornworm loves dill, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, and of course, tomatoes.

Tomato Horned Worm

Adult tomato horned worms are typically 3 to 5 inches long and they have a large black horn on their rear ends. This horn may look like it can do plenty of damage, but its actually quite harmless.

Worm Control 101

Bacillus thuringiensis, a wilt pathogen, is available to gardeners to help control worm infestations. Fortunately, this pathogen is only toxic to insects.

Facts About Worms

Worms eat so much that they typically produce excrement equal to their own weight every 24 hours.

Tomatoe Worms: Human Contact and Your Garden

Tomatoe worms may be infected with any number of parasites at any given time, but the most common tomatoe worm parasite is the braconid wasp.

Tomato Worms

Tomato worms are one of nature’s two most popular types of hornworms. The other is the tobacco worm. The scientific name for tomato worms or the “tomato hornworm” is Manduca quinquemaculata. While tomato worms are not considered harmful to humans, they are extremely harmful to plants, vegetables, and landscaping. Tomato worms appetites’ are extremely healthy, [...]

The Tomato Worm and Its Cocoon

The tomato worm pupa or cocoon is brown, hard, and around an inch and a half long. The pupa or cocoon waits out the winter season (overwinters) and hatches in the spring.

Tomato and Tobacco Hornworms

Tomato and tobacco hornworms are two of nature’s most popular types of hornworms. Their scientific names are Manduca quinquemaculata (tomato hornworm) and Manduca Sexta (tobacco hornworm).

Tomato Worm Suits

The Tomato Worm suit is a nickname for a particular type of space suit invented in the 1940s. Tomato Worm suits provided a range of motion previously unavailable with pressurized space suits.

The Tomato Worm (Tomato Hornworm)

The Tomato Worm, also known as the Tomato Hornworm or Horn Worm, isn’t really a worm at all. Tomato Worms are actually caterpillars, with stripes and a “horn” on one end.

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