Tomato hornworms, Manduca quinquemaculata, are large green caterpillars that devour tomato plants along with other nightshades including peppers, potatoes, and eggplant. They can also be a little ...

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Question: A huge magnolia tree in my yard started blooming again this month. It bloomed profusely this spring, and I’ve never seen it bloom again in the fall. Someone told me that this means the tree ...

Find out about the tomato hornworm life cycle, as it hatches from a tiny egg to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, to a huge five ...

A tomato hornworm is covered in cocoons of the braconid wasp. The insect is a parasite on the worms, making them an important natural pest control. Credit: Courtesy of Sherry Monteith Mainers have ...

I saw your recent column about tomato fruitworms, and was wondering if this pest also eats leaves. The leaves of one of my tomato plants are being eaten by something. A couple of the branches now have ...

A reader of our column from Ashland dropped me an email about these huge green worms in her garden a number of years ago and wondered what she could do about them. She pulled five off her plants and ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Franklin County will answer gardening and home landscape questions submitted ...

A mature tomato hornworm grows up to 5 inches long and can easily kill a large tomato plant in a couple of days. To find the hornworm, look for lots of vines stripped of their leaves or tomatoes with ...