Goodness, yes. A few tomato hornworms cans reduce a boisterous mature tomato plant to a green spray of sticks in a few days. They'll even eat the fruits. They're bad news for gardeners. You will know you have them by finding areas where foliage is gone leaving only stems. Just beneath this you'll find robust dark green turds that resemble miniature horse apples. They hide camouflaged perfectly on the bottoms of the leaves. I have good eyes for them, but I have a friend who said that if you spray water from a little spray bottle they'll wiggle and show themselves. BT is an organic way to rid yourself of them.
No, they are scary looking to repel predators but harmless to everything except plants.
They won't hurt you. They are just ugly.
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Yes, tomato horn worms can hurt you. They can sting you or poke you with their horn.
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mutualism.
mutualism
A horn worm either tomato or tobacco grows into a moth.
A tomato worm, or tomato hornworm becomes a five-spotted hawkmoth.
Answer Sounds like a horn worm that eats tomato plants. Google it for a picture.
tomato horn worms.
In the fall.
Blind worm is an endangered lizard in the UK (Anguis Fragilis) The sting would be the bite of the lizard.
There is a special kind of wasp, not the normal wasp that stings, but his wasp lays eggs on a horn worm and as soon as these eggs hatch, the wasps will eat the horn worm.
Most likely it is some kind of catapillar, and if notit is probably a glow worm.