This moth spells trouble for your tomato patch because it's actually the mature version of the tomato hornworm, and it's responsible for laying the eggs from which baby tomato hornworms hatch.

It has been inoculated by a parasitic braconid wasp that laid its eggs underneath the skin of the hornworm. The wasp larvae actually feed on the caterpillar starting a process of desiccation that ...

Eggs hatch to give rise to a worm-like larva ... Have you ever seen a big green hornworm chewing on tomato plants with white cocoons on its back? That hornworm has been attacked by a parasitic wasp – ...