Tobacco Hornworm
 Manduca sexta (Linnaeus)

The Tobacco Hornworms can be distinguished from the tomato hornworm by the seven diagonal white stripes
 and the curved red horn
.  The tobacco hornworm can be very destructive by chewing large irregular holes
in a tobacco leaf.



(Photo by Ben Meredith, ANR Agent for Woodford Co.)


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