Texas Gardening: Gardening with Texas Native Plants & Wildflowers, part 12., 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Josephine, it wasn't this guy who ate your plant, it was a hornworm. I had a whole bunch of them on mine a while back. I'm not sure which variety of sphinx moth they are tho.

After they ate it mine I cut it back, almost down, and to my surprise it has come back bigger and prettier.

My neighbor was just telling me last night that his plants looked the exact same way and I told him to look around for the hornworm(s) and bring them to me, not to kill them.