The relationship between a tomato plant and the hornworm caterpillar is parasitism because parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism get benefits and the other get harmed. We know that hornworm caterpillar feed on leaves and destroy the tomato crop. So it gets nutrients from tomato plant and the tomato plant is negatively affected. The input of this system is the vegetative part of tomato plant while the output is the conversion of hornworm caterpillar into a moth.
