Don't forget the moths on night shift!

Yes, Tomato Hornworm do indeed live on tomato plants. Here in Indiana August is spent scouring
your plants for the nasty critter's! You go to bad having a beautiful productive plant and the next day half you plant is gone!

Yup, that is one of the sumacs that I have - fairly abundantly, too. I think I have Rhus copallina, too - the leaves are not toothed.

Your place sounds really nice. That is a LOT of plants you added. Your critters must love you. I can't wait to be able to follow in your footsteps. Most people can't imagine landscaping a woods - they laugh at me or look at me funny if I mention it.

nanny - next time I have tomato plants I will look for them. What kind of hawkmoth has cats on tomatoes?

It's the Five-Spotted Hawkmoth.

Ha, fooled ya. My place is a wreck in the process of being rebuilt ground up. Some day it will be cleaned up... some day.

Aha, but you have only succeeded in making me admire you more.

No garden is ever "finished."