Comments on: Creepy and Crawly http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=108 All Things Juddmansee Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Ab http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=108&cpage=1#comment-74 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:46:17 +0000 http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=108#comment-74 I think caterpillars are some of the coolest creatures ever, so I had to figure this out. A quick search gave me an answer, but it just made me sad and squeamish.

The caterpillar: almost definitely a tomato hornworm. They aren’t your plants’ friend.

BUT you shouldn’t pick this guy b/c he’s being attacked by the eggs of a Braconid Wasp. They burrow in and kill him. This is considered a environmentally beneficial thing, so you should celebrate his painful death. Sigh.

More info here:
http://www.vegedge.umn.edu/vegpest/hornworm.htm

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