Brown-eye moth, Lacanobia oleracea garden pest identification

‘Lacanobia oleracea’  Brown-eye’ / ‘Brown-eyes’ is a garden pest as it eats tomato plants including the fruit.

 

Brown-eye moth 'Lacanobia oleracea

The Brown-eye moth caterpillar is a garden pest as it eats tomatoes.

They can destroy your tomatoes in a very short time unless you pick them off

Tomato fruit eaten by Brown-eye caterpillar ‘Lacanobia oleracea’

 

I’ve added this post to help identify garden pests and to accompany my plant identification, garden pest and pruning guide website www.rightplants4me.co.uk

Photography by Neil Bromhall

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