[dannie]

can anyone tell me please,what critter that looks like a fat brown caterpiller and has little green babies that look like cabbage white caterpiller , and are in my greenhouse eating my tomatoes , there not just happy with one, i have picked about a dozen cherry tomatoes off today with just a little bit eaten out of each. also eaten leaves and pood all over the plant. thanks 

[dannie]

just been in the greenhouse and picked another five fat green ones off my tomatoe plants, i have never known caterpillers eat tomatoes before. anyone ever heard of this please.

[mumofstig]

I have merged your two posts dannie

Please try to be patient until someone comes along who may know the answer to your question, as obviously the people who have read your posts so far didn't know

[sunshineband]

Generally caterpillars don't have babies so I am a bit stumped -- any pictures please?

[DD.]

Try this thread:

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=60460.0

[dannie]

sorry folks for being impatient, have just had my books out and found out it could be the tomatoe moth , new to me never had this problem before , appologies for being so stupid

[sunshineband]

Not stupid at all   

[Stevens706]

Dannie never heard of the tomatoe moth however I have seen several large brown moths around this year.

[dannie]

read the threads from DD very interesting

[Stevens706]

Thanks for the advice -  looks like the brown moths could be the Hebrew Character moth, I will now have to search for any caterpillars