Though unfriendly, it's a beautiful "worm". Google it for photos. When we
lived in Brooklyn (New York), I would occasionally find them by spotting
their droppings. They were never infected so I would always remove them.
But this one was food for wasps, a good thing, so I let it be .

-Mariana
Monmouth County NJ.


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Left it alone after finding it on one of my tomato plants.

-M
That's amazing - are the eggs laid on the larva?

Mary

Yes. If anyone finds a tomato hornworm that looks like this you
should let it live (as Jane Doe did). You'll have those parasitic
wasps in your garden

We don't have tomato hornworms though :-)

There aren't many pests which damage our tomatoes (in Britain). Slugs will
eat them when they're little and we do get whitefly but I've never been
able to see what damage they do.

That hornworm looks unfriendly ...

Mary