For example, large black ... of your tomato plants without any obvious cause, stalk borers are possible. These small pests ...

This frass is comparable to the size of the caterpillar. The bigger it gets, the bigger the black pellets of waste get.

A platoon of caterpillars, young and hungry, descend on a defenseless tomato plant to feast, but as they begin to eat something goes terribly wrong. The leaves no longer satisfy, and they turn on each ...

I have a ton of little black ... caterpillars. OK, so maybe none of you would have done that, but that’s what I did. I told these little ones that if they confined their efforts to this one ...

Scientists sprayed tomato plants with methyl jasmonate to kick off these responses, then unleashed caterpillars on them. Compared to an untreated plant, a high-dose plant had five times as much ...

vegetarian caterpillar become a cannibalistic caterpillar, even when there is still plenty of plant left to eat? When the tomato plant it's feeding on makes cannibalism the best option ...

Imagine that you're a beautiful tomato plant growing in a garden. Sunlight, earthworm casings to eat, rain to drink. It sounds peaceful until a barrage of hungry caterpillars come. What can you do ...

CATERPILLARS become cannibals when exposed to a chemical tomato plants produce when they come under attack, scientists have learned. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that ...

Injured tomato plants can induce caterpillars to become cannibals. Injured tomato plants can induce caterpillars to become cannibals. John Orrock Plants are often seen as taking a passive role in ...

A study published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution found that chemicals released by plants as they are eaten can help push caterpillars to cannibalism. The authors looked at tomato plants ...

It is not unusual for insect pests to feast on each other as well as on their staple veg, but it's now been shown that tomato plants can team up to directly push caterpillars into cannibalism.