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.

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DEAR JOAN: My husband and I have lived in Martinez a year. We have a couple of tomato plants in pots and this past Friday morning, I had a surprise when I was watering — a large, green caterpillar ...

One of the most loathsome garden pests, the tomato hornworm, is just as nasty as he looks. Despite its name, the “hornworm” isn’t a worm at all. This garden pest is actually a caterpillar, the larvae ...

Keep your tomatoes thriving by learning to identify and manage common pests. Keep your tomatoes thriving by learning to identify and manage pests like phids, hornworm caterpillars and brown marmorated ...

The poster found two more of the big galoot's friends using that method. Gardener double takes after picking up what they ...

DEAR JOAN: Can you please identify these green and white caterpillars that have invaded my tomato garden this year? They are light green with like a lime green strip running along their backs, white ...

Q: I am finding a large worm varying from 2 to 5 inches in length on my grapevines. It is about a half inch in diameter. The body color varies — green, pink, gray and brown worms have been removed and ...

The tobacco hornworm has its diet and its genes to thank. The tobacco hornworm attacking a coyote tobacco plant in the Great Basin Desert, Utah. Pavan Kumar/Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology ...

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