Manduca Sexta larvae – Tabacco Hornworm! They turn into some really beautiful fuzzy moths.
JackStowage1538
Scourge
ee-ay-ee-ay-ooooo
Good news- not a pollinator. That would be a tomato horn worm that loooves to eat your solanum-type plants ’maters, taters, angel trumpets, etc). My uncle gave me a nickel for every one I picked off of his tomato plants.
Bad news – later on in it might’ve become a super cool moth that *is* a pollinator; known as a hummingbird moth, or a Sphinx moth. They’re called hummingbird moths because they sound just like Hummers when they hover around flowers that they are using their incredibly long tongue to suck the nectar out of (at dusk, of course).
gottagrablunch
Do people not generally know that caterpillars turn into moths or butterflies? I guess basic science education has gone down in quality.
OtherwiseDoughnut582
That’s not a pollinator. That is a decimator
ThatInAHat
This has to be bait
LostMyCleaver
Fat bastard of doomed crops
R0598
Y’all have me terrified of these things why do I keep seeing them in my feed 😩😩😩 they look like aliens
EarthenMama
How lovely!
DelightfulDaisy02
Aw, that’s sad 😢 Looks like a moth caterpillar and would’ve been a nice pollinator.
Pattycakes1966
He’s not your friend
MissouriOzarker
That there’s the devil.
fangelo2
They don’t last long in my garden. I have these little parasitic wasps that lay their eggs on them. The larvae eat the hornworm alive. Kind of harsh, but don’t mess with my tomatoes
rojo-perro
They’re doing what they have to here but you’re right they are good pollinators in hummingbird moth stage.
bourbonray
You found an asshole
VolatileMoistCupcake
l k
1p3qq
zesty_meatballs
Hornworm!! They’ll cause some damage.
13NeverEnough
Sadly?!
RadBruhh
Thanks for caring about nature♥️
Everyone wants to eat fresh produce, but apparently give very little care about fresh air and a healthy planet.
HickoryStickz
We call them tomato worms because that’s the only place we ever see them 😂
Ciarrai_IRL
If it wasn’t frozen to death, it would have decimated your plant. Tomato hornworm.
holy-ravioli
What I’ve learned from this subreddit is that you must feed these to your chickens. Or go get some chickens, THEN feed them the hornworm(s).
grapeCoolAidDrankin
He looks like a long baby green rhino…. so cute!
but I’d be wigged out if I came in contact with it!
ZafakD
It would have turned into a sphinx moth, aka a hummingbird moth. They are big and hover at flowers like a hummingbird.
krikluk
Was that the caterpillar in Bugs life?
Crazy_names
Seriously. When are the mods going to make the hornworm the icon for this sub?
SoftlySpokenPromises
Tobacco Hornworm, it turns into a tobacco hawk moth. They are great pollinators but they can be destructive if not controlled
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Tobacco Hornworm
That is a hornworm. They eat tomato plants.
Manduca Sexta larvae – Tabacco Hornworm! They turn into some really beautiful fuzzy moths.
Scourge
Good news- not a pollinator. That would be a tomato horn worm that loooves to eat your solanum-type plants ’maters, taters, angel trumpets, etc). My uncle gave me a nickel for every one I picked off of his tomato plants.
Bad news – later on in it might’ve become a super cool moth that *is* a pollinator; known as a hummingbird moth, or a Sphinx moth. They’re called hummingbird moths because they sound just like Hummers when they hover around flowers that they are using their incredibly long tongue to suck the nectar out of (at dusk, of course).
Do people not generally know that caterpillars turn into moths or butterflies? I guess basic science education has gone down in quality.
That’s not a pollinator. That is a decimator
This has to be bait
Fat bastard of doomed crops
Y’all have me terrified of these things why do I keep seeing them in my feed 😩😩😩 they look like aliens
How lovely!
Aw, that’s sad 😢 Looks like a moth caterpillar and would’ve been a nice pollinator.
He’s not your friend
That there’s the devil.
They don’t last long in my garden. I have these little parasitic wasps that lay their eggs on them. The larvae eat the hornworm alive. Kind of harsh, but don’t mess with my tomatoes
They’re doing what they have to here but you’re right they are good pollinators in hummingbird moth stage.
You found an asshole
l k
1p3qq
Hornworm!! They’ll cause some damage.
Sadly?!
Thanks for caring about nature♥️
Everyone wants to eat fresh produce, but apparently give very little care about fresh air and a healthy planet.
We call them tomato worms because that’s the only place we ever see them 😂
If it wasn’t frozen to death, it would have decimated your plant. Tomato hornworm.
What I’ve learned from this subreddit is that you must feed these to your chickens. Or go get some chickens, THEN feed them the hornworm(s).
He looks like a long baby green rhino…. so cute!
but I’d be wigged out if I came in contact with it!
It would have turned into a sphinx moth, aka a hummingbird moth. They are big and hover at flowers like a hummingbird.
Was that the caterpillar in Bugs life?
Seriously. When are the mods going to make the hornworm the icon for this sub?
Tobacco Hornworm, it turns into a tobacco hawk moth. They are great pollinators but they can be destructive if not controlled