Tomato hornworms are a highly destructive pest of tomato plants, but they have predators you can encourage in your garden.

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Whether you're a tomato-growing novice or seasoned vet, get to know these common tomato plant problems and diseases so you ...

Certain species, such as braconid wasps, are particularly effective against aphids and tomato hornworm. Often, the easiest way to remove these pests is to physically pluck them from the foliage. But ...

Natural parasitism often occurs on hornworm caterpillars when tiny braconid wasps lay eggs inside the hornworms. The larvae feed inside and then pupate on the backs of the hornworms.

Whether you're a tomato-growing novice or seasoned vet, get to know these common tomato plant problems and diseases so you can ensure your juiciest harvest yet.

THE presence of a symbiotic basidiomycete fungus in the adult females of the woodwasp Sirex gigas L. was first described by Buchner1. Subsequent work by Cartwright2,3 and Francke-Grossmann4 has ...