what moth or butterfly do the brown caterpillers......

[areia]

become once they've finished nobbling my fliping tomatoes

my fault really for not dbl checking the ones that are a bit too close together decided to cut back my tomes a bit as some are starting to get blight then i find huge brown caterpillers chomping quite happily away

[bearded bloke]

That would probably be the ......... Tomato Moth .......... seriously it does exist

[areia]

now feel a fool but at least i have a name now

Bright-line Brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) | Flickr - Photo Sharing! wondered if the green ones i had were just young ones, and wow the moth is huge quite pretty, shame im not prepared to keep them they have been evicted today they have abucket load of tomato leaves to munch on though and half eaten toms

[bearded bloke]

Sorry,on reflection that looked like a facetious reply I looked in the Dr. Hessayon vegetable book & there is very limited information,then started a google & got side tracked