Beginner Gardening: caterpillars on my tomato plants, 1 by locakelly

locakelly wrote:
If you can relocate them to a sacrifice plant so to speak the moths are beautiful and beneficial. The hornworms themselves though can strip a plant overnight. Nasty guys. The big ones I don't like to touch - they creep me out when they start thrashing around - eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Those ones I take my garden scissors and cut them in half.

Here's one of mine from last summer. This one I clipped the stem and tossed it in a bucket of water.