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Photo by hailey
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Field Notes

Description:

Found this in my vegetable garden. Should I get rid of it?

Habitat:

Vegetable garden

Species ID Suggestions

Tomato hornworm

Manduca quinquemaculata

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TheKittenBasket
2

Tobacco Hornworm

Manduca sexta

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ConorSheaWing
1

Comments (2)
ConorSheaWing
This is a Tobacco Hornworm not a Tomato Hornworm. Tobacco has 7 white stripes down the side (seen in the picture) and the Tomato Hornworm has 8 V-shaped markings.
MrsPbio
So which do you like more ... Nice juicy tomatoes or a pretty sphinx moth? I'm afraid it's one or the other . Or if you don't like your neighbors and if they have a tomato plant, you can move the hornworm next door..... (Oh my bad...). :P

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PublishedAugust 9, 2013

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