By Kaaren Grimminger, Nebraska Extension Master Gardener
To protect those pests that are pollinators at some point in their lifecycle and still protect your plants, you might isolate one plant that’s been attacked and ‘sacrifice’ it to the pest. An example of a pest that also has a pollinator form in its lifecycle, we can look at the tomato hornworm. It’s ugly, and it is voracious. It is the caterpillar of the Hummingbird Moth, it’s called that because It flies rapidly like a Hummingbird and pollinates like a Hummingbird. And I thought a pest was a pest.Â