I found a site with cutworm photos:

http://www.blogsmonroe.com/nat...

The idea is great. The photo is not so great as it is not a cutworm photo.

It's actually the photo of a Hawk's moth in caterpillar form. I know, I've pulled so many off my pepper plants it's not funny.

are cutworms and horned caterpillars the same? I thought the tomato worms/ horned caterpillars are what turns into hummingbird moths? I love those moths, they are beautiful.

Cutworms are different than the horned tomato caterpillars.
The cutworms are smallish and kind of brown colored, live in the soil near the base of the plant, they come out and encircle the stem of a young tomato (or other plant) and chew in a circle and the plant keels over. The tomato hornworm caterpillars are big, fat, beautiful green buggers, they eat the leaves and even the green tomatoes.


Here is our 'best' tomato from 2013 which was eaten by the dreaded hornworm caterpillar.

they eat the tomatoes?!! I thought they ate the plant, like the leaves. had no idea. Well I probably had those before and blamed it on squirrels. I figured in the summer when it is so hot and dry that they eat tomatoes for the juice. silly me.

Not only do they attack and eat tomatoes, they love to eat brugmansias.