I was doing maintenance in the vegetable garden today and found three very large and healthy Tomato Hornworms which will soon pupate and become a Five-spotted Hawkmoth. I placed them on some tomato seedlings that came up in the compost pile as the larvae have a sweet tooth for the fruit in preference to the foliage.
Bill Snowden, Ennismore
Manduca quinquemaculatus – Five-spotted Hawkmoth (tomato hornworm) Wikimedia
Five-spotted Hawkmoth (tomato hornworm) Wikimedia
Tomato Hornworm (Rick Stankiewicz)
Tomato Hornworm 2 (Rick Stankiewicz)
