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Tomato Hornworm Caterpillar © Denise Etienne |
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Tomato Hornworm Caterpillar © Denise Etienne |
A couple days ago I was outside admiring my lovely tomato plants, which has quite a few fruits on it, you can imaging I felt like a proud mother!
To my surprise, I discovered a creature who also thought highly of my plants! It is called a Tomato Hornworm Caterpillar. It is approx 3 ½ inches long, with a distinctive " horn" (hence the name) on it’s rear end and several diagonal stripes along the body. He was happily consuming the leaves and stems.
Today I went searching of him and it’s like he has totally just vanished! I must have spent over ½ hour looking to no avail. It’s either one of two things, i) he must have pupated or ii) he was lunch for the neighboring birds. Stay tuned, I’ll keep you posted...
© Denise Etienne
PS: Thanks for your comments Timothy, I've tried countless times to reply to you but for whatever reason this page isn’t allowing me to respond anymore, its really weird?
Take care,
Take care,
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