If you grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or other nightshades, there’s a good chance that you’ve encountered large green caterpillars feeding on your plants. Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, ...

Bollywood actress Sunny Leone found live worms inside tomatoes, highlighting risks of poor inspection. These larvae spoil fruit quality and may carry bacteria. Experts advise discarding affected ...

It sounds like you have tomato fruitworms to contend with in your garden. I haven’t seen these pests in the tomatoes in my garden at home (our dachshunds eating ripening tomatoes have been a bigger ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: In cleaning up the garden I found a dried-up worm with little white things sticking out of the body. Any ideas on the find? — Jack, Indianapolis Dear Reader: The insect in question is ...

Readers continue to chime in on tomato hornworms, including this handy trick for tracking the critters. “The article about tomato hornworms on Nov. 16 mentions picking them off the tomato plants to ...

Always clean and sharpen tools you won't be using for a while. It's a good idea to wipe the metal blades with an oily cloth. This coats them with a thin layer of protective oil to help prevent ...

Tomatoes are an inevitable part of our daily diet. Somehow, in any shape or form, this red squishy vegetable is plonked on a sandwich, slipped inside a burger, added to a rainbow salad, or ground into ...