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Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits of your labor (literally) is the tomato hornworm. The caterpillars feast on the ...

Q: A couple of evenings ago, we were sitting on the back porch with well-deserved glasses of iced tea. We were looking at the neighbor’s desert willow tree and saw hummingbirds flitting all around. It ...

Moth Week is a perfect time to talk about the insects' impact on the garden. A most detested caterpillar foe to our tomatoes, the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta), becomes a lovely hawk moth in its ...

Readers have sent photographs of small critters hovering over flowers, as if they were sipping nectar like hummingbirds. But they’re not hummingbirds. Instead, they are insects variously called sphinx ...

Have you noticed big green caterpillars eating your tomato plants? Then your crops are likely being feasted on by tomato ...