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Posted: 10 Sep 2010


Taken: 18 Sep 2005

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tomato horn worm
braconid wasp


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A happy sight

A happy sight
No one who grows tomatoes is happy to see a tomato horn worm -- unless it looks like this one. Those white things are the cocoons of the braconid wasp, which will grow to adulthood by consuming the worm (itself the larva of the sphinx moth). Such tomato worms are best left alone, to be the nursery for the little wasps.

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