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 ...

Tomatoes are one of the easiest plants to grow in your garden. There are several varieties, but whichever you choose to go with, you can generally count on a decent harvest if you give them proper ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have four different tomato plants. Two are supposed to be growing upside down, and the other two live in containers. The growth of our transplants into vibrant plants with many branches has brought ...

I’m standing next to one of our 4-foot-tall tomato plants trying to hunt down a tomato horn worm. I can see the damage — a stripped leaflet — and I note the collection of small droppings that have ...

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 ...

Plant tomatoes; expect tomato horn worms. That may be an exaggeration; there was one year that we planted tomatoes and I never saw a single tomato worm. But I think that was a freak occurrence.

For a gardener, the tomato hornworm is the worthy foe. The larva of the sphinx moth is almost the exact color of the tomato leaves, which makes it a challenge to spot unless doing so is your sole ...