Undoubtedly hornworm damage in the first photo. They are active at night, you can illuminate the area and literally hand pick most of them off, keep at it and you actually can win. In the day time they hide under leaves. I have fought them off more than once. Last year I kept a couple of patio plants (tomato) in pots in and around the garage, they got to those first, eradicated them by picking them off, but then they went up the hill or appeared in my regular garden plot, which is under floodlights adjacent to my home. Lit them up and went hornworm pickin !
There is a wasp that lays eggs on them, and they do literally suck em dry, a worm coated in these eggs is at a huge disadvantage, have read to leave these, as the wasps will emerge and are a natural enemy of this worm. Those with wasp eggs I relocate, the worm just does too much damage too quickly to allow one with eggs to remain. It is good to help those wasps and keep the worm going on, I snip off a leaf from the tomato and try to keep that worm going, those wasps just zap these worms, they shrivel up rapidly over time. If not time to fool with wasp egg laden worms, just keep after them, inspect all the plants and remove, you can win the battle with them by doing this.
I have also read that fall tillage also breaks the horn worm cycle, and of course rotating your crops also is helpful in the same regard. I had them last year and a few years back, have not seen any so far yet.
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