When people use the expression about seeing things through the eyes of a child, it is because children can often observe the world without any baggage. I was reminded of this when my daughter, Celia, ...

Let’s play Clue….no, not the board game. This is Garden Clue. Clue No. 1: Dark green to black-colored pellets on the ground and on some leaves of tomato. Clue No. 2: Tips of tomato stems are ...

Several types of caterpillars damage tomato plants in Missouri, but the tomato hornworm and the tobacco hornworm usually get the most attention because of the prominent horn on the last segment of ...

The leaves of my tomato plant are being eaten by something. Some of the stems are completely bare of leaves. Is there anything I can do to protect my plants? I suspect you have a tomato hornworm or ...

I saw your recent column about tomato fruitworms, and was wondering if this pest also eats leaves. The leaves of one of my tomato plants are being eaten by something. A couple of the branches now have ...

If you grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or other nightshades, there’s a good chance that you’ve encountered large green caterpillars feeding on your plants. Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, ...

As it gets towards the end of the summer growing season, you tend to be a bit less observant in the garden. Then one day you look out and your tomato or pepper plant is half gone. Look closely and you ...

Q. Yesterday afternoon I thought my tomato plants looked a little strange, then this morning I noticed that almost every leaf on some of the plants were gone. I saw a few big, fat, green worms with ...

At any point in time a subject under inspection may be in a transitory state which soon passes into a form more representative of the creature’s primary existence, but very different from its starting ...