Tomato Horn Worms in December!!!

[rebbetzin]

I found these on my Morning glory vines!

I figured that the brown color is from them eating old dried leaves.

The chickens liked them!!

 

[eggchel]

Wow! I hope that finding them this early doesnt mean that there will be a plague of them this spring/summer.

 

[cw]

can you feed them to your flock?

 

[ole-crone]

The brown was more likely turning into the cocoon. They are beautiful moths. Some people suggest that you grow a few extra tomato plants just for the spinx moth to live on.

 

[Chris09]

They are could be a Tobacco Hornworm or a Tomato Hornworm. I cant tell to well by the picture but they might be Tobacco Hornworms.
The tobacco hornworm (7 diagonal white stripes and, most commonly, a red horn)
and the tomato hornworm ("V" shaped markings with a horn that is often black). The
adult of the tobacco Hornworm is the Sphinx moth. The Five-spotted Hawk Moth is the adult of the tomato hornworm.

If the brown ones were eating the "old dried leaves" I would say that they were taking on the color of the food it was eating much like camouflage...

Chris

 

[rebbetzin]

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We did have a plague of grubs this year!! They killed off a few of my best plants!!