Hornworms are large caterpillars with horn-like tails. They are the larval stage of the five-spotted hawk moth. Before their ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits ...

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 ...

Readers have sent photographs of small critters hovering over flowers, as if they were sipping nectar like hummingbirds. But they’re not hummingbirds. Instead, they are insects variously called sphinx ...

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 ...