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There are ways to keep them from destroying your garden. Gardener shares photo of the plump menace that devoured half of their plants: 'Bane of the backyard gardens' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sometimes a pest is so intriguing you almost wish it would appear in your garden. Almost. Take the tomato hornworm, which feasts on tomato plants and their relatives, such as peppers and eggplants. In ...