cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17588319

[Image description: a thicc green hornworm hanging onto the stem of a tomato plant. The hornworm is speckled with little white dots, has eyespots and angular white stripes down his side, and the namesake sharp little spike of a horn on its butt.]

  • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    4 months ago

    They can get quite large and will decimate a tomato plant in a day. Suffice to say, there are no survivors in my mother’s garden.