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Manduca quinquemaculata, the five-spotted hawkmoth, is a brown and gray hawk moth of the family Sphingidae.The caterpillar, often referred to as the tomato hornworm, can be a major pest in gardens; they get their name from a dark projection on their posterior end and their use of tomatoes as host plants.
Manduca sexta is a moth of the family Sphingidae present through much of the Americas.The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum.. Commonly known as the Carolina sphinx moth and the tobacco hawk moth (as adults) and the tobacco hornworm and the Goliath worm (as larvae), it is closely related to and often confused with the very similar tomato hornworm ...
Growing tomatoes with Basil does not appear to enhance tomato flavour but studies have shown that growing them around 10 inches apart can increase the yield of tomatoes by about 20%. [75] One study shows that growing chili peppers near tomatoes in greenhouses increases tomato whitefly on the tomatoes. [57]
The eggs are initially pale green in color, but over time they turn yellowish and then grey. [9] Eggs are 0.5 mm in height and average about 0.55 mm in diameter. [9] They hatch after 66 to 72 hours of development. [10] Once larvae have breached the chorion, they spend up to 83% of eclosion making an exit hole larger than their heads. [10]
As caterpillars, they have a wide range of color phenotypes but show consistent adult coloration. [3] With a wide geographic range throughout Central and North America, H. lineata is known to feed on many different host plants as caterpillars and pollinate a variety of flowers as adults. [4] [5]
T. absoluta was originally described in 1917 by Edward Meyrick as Phthorimaea absoluta, based on individuals collected from Huancayo (Peru). [2]: 240 Later, the pest was reported as Gnorimoschema absoluta, [3] Scrobipalpula absoluta (Povolný), [2]: 240 or Scrobipalpuloides absoluta (Povolný), [2]: 240 but was finally described under the genus Tuta as T. absoluta by Povolný in 1994.< [4] [5 ...
Spodoptera eridania (Southern armyworm) is a moth that is known to be a pest.They are one of the most important defoliators in the tropical and subtropical regions of the western hemisphere that feed heavily on plants while they are young, often resulting in skeleton leaves on their food plants.
The larval stage of C. catalpae is known as the catalpa or catawba worm. When first hatching, the larvae are very pale, but become darker toward the last instars.The yellow caterpillars will usually have a dark, black stripe down their back along with black dots along their sides.