(Credit: Chekaramit/Shutterstock) It's a twist of fate that wouldn't feel out of place in a horror movie: A platoon of caterpillars, young and hungry, descend on a defenseless tomato plant to feast, ...

and dark blue or black horns Know the signs These caterpillars eat tremendous amounts of foliage as they grow, which weakens the tomato plant. As a result of their voracious feeding, the hornworms ...

Orrock and his research team sprayed tomato plants with methyl jasmonate ... predators and parasitoids that will eat herbivores,” said Orrock. When caterpillars find that the plant they ...

The usual treatment for tomato hornworms is to just hand ... While we are talking about caterpillars eating plants, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the monarch butterfly.

It looks like a big yellow [actually green] caterpillar. It will eat up your entire tomato plant." FYI, watch out for your ...

If any caterpillars get overly problematic, Littlefield says, such as tomato hornworms devouring ... meaning they’ll lay eggs on and eat a variety of plant species. Penn State’s Center for ...

Silicon powers more than electronics: In tomato plants ... blend of nutrients to support caterpillar growth. To make matters worse for the pinworms, this plant potion also altered caterpillar ...

Tussock moth caterpillars eat the leaves of a wide variety of trees ... Huge clouds of aphids on tomato plants, slugs dining on spinach or caterpillars on cabbages – this natural process can ...

Schlanger notes that some tomato plants, when being eaten by caterpillars, fill their leaves with a chemical that makes them so unappetizing that the caterpillars start eating each other instead.

"They eat it from the inside ... Huge clouds of aphids on tomato plants, slugs dining on spinach or caterpillars on cabbages – this natural process can ruin a tasty crop.