Big Caterpillar On Tomato Plant. These caterpillars, if uncontrolled, can destroy a. The hornworm’s favorite food is your tomato plant, but you may see them on potato, eggplant, and pepper plants as well.
They can go unnoticed until most of the damage is done. Hornworms chew leaves and can completely defoliate plants. Other caterpillars attack garden plants.
They are large, green, and sport a “horn” at the end of their bodies.
An easy remedy to a little green caterpillar problem is soap and water. The larvae blend in really well with the plant greenery. Tomato hornworms are sometimes confused with a related species, the tobacco hornworm (manduca sexta). A green caterpillar with a horn at one end and distinctive white markings and black or dark dots along its side.