cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17588319

[Image description: a thicc green hornworm hanging onto the stem of a tomato plant. The hornworm is speckled with little white dots, has eyespots and angular white stripes down his side, and the namesake sharp little spike of a horn on its butt.]

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      These fuckers get huge, fast. They will strip your tomato plant bare if you don’t catch them early.

    • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      5 months ago

      They can get quite large and will decimate a tomato plant in a day. Suffice to say, there are no survivors in my mother’s garden.