Really?! More tomato hornworms?

[Francis Barnswallow]

I did my daily garden check this morning and noticed 3 young tomato hornworms on my new tomato transplants. Isn't it a little late in the year for these pests to still be a concern? I found a few armyworms as well.

I haven't seen these pests in about a month and a half. I thought I was done with them. For the record, lately it's been very humid and rainy with above average temps (what a shock).

[RyNJ]

I didn't have a problem with those this year, but I did find one the other day. I squished, and much to my dismay, found to be full of little wasp eggs . When it didn't move at all I should have been tipped off. Maybe you'll be lucky and the wasps will have gotten to them.

[Francis Barnswallow]

I've yet to see a hornworm with wasp eggs on it. And there are tons of wasps around the garden.

[gixxerific]

The brachnoid (sp) wasp that infect the hormworm are very samll. They are not your normal "wasp" that every one refers to.

Also just to be the stickler I am I bet it is a Tobacco hornworm not a tomato hormworm.

The tobacco has 7 diagonal lines and red tail the tomato has 8 v shaped marks and a dark I want to say brown tail. The tobacco is the more pretty one if there is such a thing.

[PunkRotten]

I found one like 2 days ago on one of my pepper plants. So they are still around.