The Horror of Caterpillars

There have been some horrid kinds of caterpillars on my tomatos (grosse lisse and sweetbite).....but who ever found a caterpillar that appealed to them?

So I'm in no position to scoff at others' superficialities when reading re: the green zebra tomato...."people were apprehensive because it was green."

It could just as easily be written re: me and the caterpillars:

"she was apprehensive because it had stripes"
or
"she was apprehensive because it vainly tried to camouflage but the finding of droppings alerted her to the presence of her quarry"
or
"she was apprehensive because of the vulgar holes it had left in the unripe flesh of her labours"

Without knowing, is it possible to tell that the object of fear is a caterpillar?