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Manduca sexta
Hornworm with wasp eggs
Garden
Cool find! Tomato Hornworms (Five-spotted Hawkmoth) have eight V shaped stripes on the sides. They can both be found feeding on tomato and related species of plants. Your caterpillar has seven diagonal stripes that can be seen even with the wasp cocoons.
The parasitic wasps lay eggs inside of these caterpillars. When the larva are ready to pupate, they emerge from the body of the caterpillar and create these neat little cocoons on the outside of the body.
Spotted on Sep 14, 2014
Submitted on Sep 14, 2014
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