Manduca quinquemaculata and Manduca sexta
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Description: Provides photographs of different life stages of the tobacco and tomato hornworms, their distribution, description, life cycle, host plants, damage caused and management.
tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (Linnaeus); tomato hornworm, Manduca quinquemaculata (Haworth) (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) (Haworth) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) Tobacco and tomato hornworms are the common large caterpillars that defoliate tomato plants. Their large size allows them to strip a plant of foliage in a short period of time, so they frequently catch gardeners by surprise. They are quite similar in appearance and biology.
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| Page title: | tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta (Linnaeus); tomato hornworm, Manduca quinquemaculata (Haworth) |
| Keywords: | tobacco hornworm tomato hornworm Manduca sexta quinquemaculata Lepidoptera Sphingidae Villanueva |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |