can anyone identify this grub?

[bluefish44]

Here are 2 picks...it's about 3 inches long and has 1 big yellow eye in the center of the top of its head (Don't know if the eye is real). It looks like an alien, pretty cool




Thanks for your help!

[Capsid]

A hawkmoth caterpillar, possibly elephant hawkmoth.

[Two_Sheds]

I'd go with Capsid's Elephant Hawkmoth http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.c...lephantmth.htm

[gojiberry]

The largest caterpillar in this country, will eat a cabbage in one sitting!! Seriously, I'm not sure what their main food is but I'm sure they eat a lot looking at the size of them. I never kill them as there aren't a lot of them about I just remove to an area away from everyone's allotment.

Ian

[bluefish44]

Found out that this thing is a 'Tomato Worm' on another forum...I'm in the US, not the UK...so I guess we dont have the Elephant Hawkmoths...The thing looks like an alien, don't think I'll be eating tomatoes from the garden this yr.

[Two_Sheds]

I don't think it's a Tomato Worm aka Five-Spotted Hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) ... they have horns on their rear end

[Two_Sheds]

I'm not sure what their main food is

Weeds: willowherbs.

So they are good guys

[rustylady]

Definitely a hawkmoth caterpillar, what was it living on?

[bluefish44]

I found it on the stem of a boston ivy vine (which was very close to a tomato plant)...Other people seemed fairly certain it was a tomato worm, but I'm not sure. Figured that since it was near the tomato plant then it must be.
Another has said that it is definately a Achemon Sphinx "hornless hornworm"...after looking at the picture on this link, I would tend to agree...it has that single yellow eye on the top of its head

http://www.blogsmonroe.com/nature/20...less-hornworm/

this pic is tiny, but you can tell its the same thing

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1