I had heard my father mention "tobacco worms" once long ago, but had never seen one up close myself. Suffice it to say, he didn't have anything nice to say about the little buggers He related to me that he spent many hot muggy days in the fields, searching for & removing any little pesky worms; he also told me that they could spit tobacco juice at anybody who dared to disturb their feeding time, a fact that's confirmed by the Wiki article.

For the record, he grew up in a little nowhere farming community in west Tennessee, where farming & similar manual labor was all he had to look forward to...unless, of course, he found an escape route called the U S Army

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