I’ve dispatched a lot of tomato hornworms this year. Now one has eggs on its back (which I’ve never heard of.) Is this normal? I never seem to catch them until they denude entire branches and damage ...

Question: A huge magnolia tree in my yard started blooming again this month. It bloomed profusely this spring, and I’ve never seen it bloom again in the fall. Someone told me that this means the tree ...

A tomato hornworm is covered in cocoons of the braconid wasp. The insect is a parasite on the worms, making them an important natural pest control. Credit: Courtesy of Sherry Monteith Mainers have ...

Thu, June 30, 2022 at 10:07 PM UTC A tomato hornworm is the larva of a hawk moth, also called a hummingbird moth. The moths emerge from the soil in late spring or early summer, then lay their eggs ...

Find out about the tomato hornworm life cycle, as it hatches from a tiny egg to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, to a huge five ...

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A reader of our column from Ashland dropped me an email about these huge green worms in her garden a number of years ago and wondered what she could do about them. She pulled five off her plants and ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Franklin County will answer gardening and home landscape questions submitted ...