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Braconid cocoons on Tomato Hornworm

Braconid cocoons on Tomato Hornworm
Blackwood, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
August 31, 2013
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Braconid wasp eggs on a tomat
Braconid wasp eggs on a tomato horn worm, if you found this on your tomato plants leave it. The horn worm has done about all the damage it will do, and the wasps, being parasitic will eventually kill the host.

 
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Thanks Heather. I believe the host caterpillar was already dead (or very close to it) when I found it and that most of the adult wasps had already emerged from their cocoons.

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