First off the tomato hornworm in the picture in the top of your article with the little white silk cocoons contain the larvae of the beneficial parasitic wasp that sting and lay eggs in the tomato hornworms and feed off of them and kill them , please do not kill them they are not harmful to humans or pets and will kill the hornworm in a matter of days , I just break the leaf with the stem and worm off and carry it away from the garden and leave it for the little wasps to hatch out and come back to my garden and attack other hornworm that may show up again
First off the tomato hornworm in the picture in the top of your article with the little white silk cocoons contain the larvae of the beneficial parasitic wasp that sting and lay eggs in the tomato hornworms and feed off of them and kill them , please do not kill them they are not harmful to humans or pets and will kill the hornworm in a matter of days , I just break the leaf with the stem and worm off and carry it away from the garden and leave it for the little wasps to hatch out and come back to my garden and attack other hornworm that may show up again