We always had a few tomato plants, whichever ones that decided not to thrive that year, that we left to the hornworms because we liked the moths. But usually the House Wrens would pick off the caterpillars once their babies were ready to fledge for what had to be mega meals for them😅
I'm a big fan of these, since I discovered them in Salento, #Colombia :)
It doesn't show that well on the pictures, but they *perfectly* mimic dried, crumpled leaf sides. I had to look several times to realize it's a caterpillar.
YEP. When my mom and I found several on our tomato plants last summer, I put the chonkers in an enclosure and clipped tomato leaves to feed them so I could control the damage and not let them kill any of the plants. They grew up into big beautiful moths.
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It doesn't show that well on the pictures, but they *perfectly* mimic dried, crumpled leaf sides. I had to look several times to realize it's a caterpillar.
#iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258514933