The tobacco hornworm (larva of the sphinx moth) and the tomato hornworm (larva of the five-spot hawkmoth) can be significant pests of tobacco, tomato, potato, eggplant and pepper plants (Fraser et al.
The Brazilian pepper tree, an invasive plant in the southern United States ... zigzag approach to going after these really bad bugs,” says Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University.