HORNWORMS AND “HUMMINGBIRD” MOTHSToday Jeremy introduced me to a couple of creatures that appear to be completely different... different from most other living things I have seen and very different from each other, yet they are the same... just in different stages of their development. They are known as hornworms or tomato worms when they are in their caterpillar stage and “hummingbird” moths. After life as a big, fat worm, the creature buries itself a few inches below the surface of soft dirt and pupates, transforms itself into a hard, dark brown pupa, before finally emerging as a heavy-bodied, strong flying insect. I don’t know of any writer who can come up with a more fantastic transformation story.
After reading all about the hornworm and the moth it becomes, I was poking around the plants outside my porch and came across another moth. I wonder what it was like in its larva and pupa states.This little moth is about the size of a penny.
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