Brugmansia Pests: Caterpillars - Inchworm 

This morning I took a walk in my garden to inspect my brugmansia.  Recently, I had noticed some holes in the leaves, which I had thought to be from recent heavy rains.  I was surely mistaken about that speculation.  The holes had grown.  Many of the leaves were just gone!  Upon closer inspection the culprit was the inchworm larva of the geometrid moths. The inchworm is also known as looper, measuring worm, and cankerworm. 

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Brugmansia Pests:  Caterpillars - Hornworms

It can’t be denied that caterpillars love Brugmansia.  One interesting fact is that the genus Brugmansia is a relative of the tomato.  Both are from the family Solanaceae (sol-uh-NAY-see-ee).  Therefore, it is not unusual to see brugmansia and the tomato being susceptible to the same pests and disease.   Caterpillar pests shared by both include the Tomato Hornworm and Tobacco Hornworm similar as to often be labeled as the same hornworm.

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