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.]
Is it just perspective or is this thing MASSIVE?
These fuckers get huge, fast. They will strip your tomato plant bare if you don't catch them early.
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.