Found hanging on garden fence, near tomato patch. Here's a little tidbit from the past. A reader sent this to me when I was editor of Elkhart Lake's Depot Dispatch back in the late 1990s:
Evergreen City Times (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), August 28, 1869
“The Tomato Worm: People at this season should look out for the large worm which infests the tomato vine. Its sting is deadly poison. It is of a green color, two or three inches long, and as large as a man’s finger. At Red Creek, Wayne County, Indiana a few days ago, a servant girl, while gathering tomatoes, received a puncture from one of these worms, which created a sensation similar to that of a bee sting. In a short time, the poison penetrated to every part of her system and she was thrown into spasms which ended in death.”
Researched by Mark H. Knipping, Curator of Research & Collections, Wade House, Greenbush, Wisconsin.