Tobacco Worm

The large, showy tobacco-worm and the tiny tobacco-thrips cause serious injury to the leaves. ❋ Mary Huston Gregory (N/A)

Its attacks are made upon it in the first stage of its existence, and are more fatal, because less easily prevented, than those of the tobacco-worm, that scourge, _par excellence_, of the tobacco crop. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)

In the animal kingdom there are three creatures, and three only, to whom tobacco is not poisonous -- man, a goat found among the Andes, and the tobacco-worm. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)

When the tobacco-worm moth visits this flower and sips the poisoned nectar, she will of course lay no more troublesome eggs. ❋ Frank Lincoln Stevens (1902)

The common green potato, or tobacco-worm, is said to become a moth of this kind; and the whole tribe of hawk-moths are now sometimes called humming-bird moths, from these same insects. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The moth itself (Fig. 4) was formerly confounded with the tobacco-worm moth, ❋ D. A. Compton (1846)

The gray and black markings, however, of the wings differ perceptibly in the two species; and in the tobacco-worm moth there is always a more or less faint white spat, or a dot, near the centre of the front wing, which is never met with in the other species. ❋ D. A. Compton (1846)

Southern States, in Mexico and the West-Indies, the true potato-worm is unknown, and it is the tobacco-worm that the tobacco-grower has to fight. ❋ D. A. Compton (1846)