Tobacco Hornworm
Aug. 7th, 2007 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fitzwWe found one of these on one of our tomato plants yesterday:
The picture doesn't do justice to the visual impact of one of these things. It was fat and it was long (between three and four inches). And it blended in perfectly with the plant. You could be about a foot away from it and not see it because of the camouflage (which does wonders for your nerves when you suddenly recognize it for what it is, let me tell you).
For information about these things, see
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/hornworm.htm
The picture doesn't do justice to the visual impact of one of these things. It was fat and it was long (between three and four inches). And it blended in perfectly with the plant. You could be about a foot away from it and not see it because of the camouflage (which does wonders for your nerves when you suddenly recognize it for what it is, let me tell you).
For information about these things, see
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/hornworm.htm
