Without a full spectrum of their natural diet, these things have a turquoise color instead of a green one.
They still are able to go through their full life cycle just fine, they just aren't camouflaged for live foliage.
All I know about growing them is that we had a limited number of them on wet substrate in 32oz containers, and the breeding adults were fed hummingbird-style on a syrup that was boiled in-house.
You don't want these anywhere near your garden though.
Almost as thick as those honking fingers
imagine being a insectivore bird and finding one of these things
the insectvore bird in question
these guys (tomato hornworms) are fluorescent under UV so you can take a black light out at night to spot them
Finally, candids of my favorite celebrity
leave my favorite greek comedian alone. let him eat the all the peppers he wants.
Gotta plant the thing that attracts the thing that eats the thing eating your things.
"mmmm caterpillar"
"you're just here to pollinate the flower ms. wasp?"
"no"
"you just want yummy nectar right ms. wasp?"
"no"
"i'm going to put my lineage inside you along with a virus that disables your immune response. they will hatch inside your body and eat you from the inside, chew their way to the surface, and create cocoons for themselves. your flesh will be consumed to provide them with everything they need to start doing this to your family."
Mother, said a small tomato caterpillar to a wasp,
why are you kissing me so hard on my back?
You’ll see, said the industrious wasp, deftly inserting
a package of her eggs under the small caterpillar’s skin.
Every day the small caterpillar ate and ate the delicious
tomato leaves. I am surely getting larger, it said to itself.
This was a sad miscalculation. The ravenous hatched
wasp worms were getting larger. O world, the small
caterpillar said, you were so beautiful. I am only a small
tomato caterpillar, made to eat the good tomato leaves.
Now I am so tired. And I am getting even smaller. Nature
smiled. Never mind, dear, she said. You are a lovely link
in the great chain of being. Think how lucky it is to be born.
“Yes, Think” by Ruth Stone
Bleak
I think that's a tomato hornworm! They are indeed gigantors, and surprisingly dense/heavy
And they turn into Sphinx moths that look cool
Kind of cute 
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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