Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, the common caterpillar is one of the primary pests of nightshade plants. While feeding, they can skeletonize leaves, bore holes in tomato fruit ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 506-515 (10 pages) Several Lepidoptera attack cassava; of these the cassava hornworm, Erinnyis ello (L) (Sphingidae), is the only serious ...