Tomato Horn Worm

[Hilde]

It took me ten days, from I first discovered the half eaten tomatoes and the strange poop, to discover who ate my tomatoes. However much I looked, I could not see a critter, and who could eat tomatoes this high up and inside the cattle panel? Voles, chipmunks and other rodents would probably have eaten the tomatoes on the ground instead of those higher up.

So today I discovered it, saw my first, second and third Tomato Horn Worm.

Here are pictures of the poop, one of the half eaten tomatoes, and finally the Tomato Horn Worm with lots of parasitic wasp cocoons on it's back. All three of them looked like that. They were quite big, about 3" or so.

Hilde