There are ways to keep them from destroying your garden. Gardener shares photo of the plump menace that devoured half of their plants: 'Bane of the backyard gardens' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits of your labor (literally) is the tomato hornworm. The caterpillars feast on the ...

Moth Week is a perfect time to talk about the insects' impact on the garden. A most detested caterpillar foe to our tomatoes, the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta), becomes a lovely hawk moth in its ...

One of the more fascinating, if not disturbing, pests now to be found in the vegetable garden is the tomato hornworm, so called for the large hornlike structure on its tail end. Though quite large, up ...

“I dreamt that I woke up and my entire garden was eaten and all that was left were hundreds of these thicc boys." Gardener discovers monstrous insect devouring their plants: 'I didn't know what they ...

Q: We have several different types of trees in our yard that have for the past three to four years been infiltrated by those large green hornworms. It is a complete puzzle to us where they come from, ...

As it gets towards the end of the summer growing season, you tend to be a bit less observant in the garden. Then one day you look out and your tomato or pepper plant is half gone. Look closely and you ...