Toni said:Oh my gosh! I didn't know hummingbird moths were tomato horn worms! Why have I seen hummingbird moths in the mountains where no tomatoes ever lived...? I definitely couldn't kill those - they are awesome
Toni, I just learned this last year -- I had some damage on my tomato plants and in the process of trying to figure out what was doing it, having never seen the hornworms here before, found that it was not only hornworms on the plants but also that the hummer moths I had been seeing in my flowers (also unusual, I had seen them but not here at home) came from those caterpillars! Kind of like the year I discovered that what I considered to be nasty-looking, hairy caterpillars infesting my borage and petunias were actually Painted Lady butterfly babies
http://texasbutterflyranch.com...
(There are quite a few different sphinx moths, so not just from the tomato hornworm...)
