[CH] Hornworm Revisited

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Tomato/tobacco hornworn are plant selective,  They lay eggs near solanacae
plants.

Of course this includes tomatoes, peppers, eggplant,  potatoes,  weeds like
horsenettle, Datura, jimsom weed,  wild mustard, geranium, nicotina and
about 2,500 others.

L.B.




I wonder if the hornwors/moths "remember" what kind of plants they ate in
the caterpillar stage - if the worm eats pepper foliage, will it, as a moth,
seek out chile foliage to lay eggs?

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