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Carolina Sphinx - Hodges#7775 (Manduca sexta)
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Copyright © 2004
Stefanie Hartmann
caterpillar with parasites? -
Manduca sexta
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
July 15, 2004
...are these really parasites on this caterpillar? What kind? (I found this caterpillar on my tomatoes)
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Contributed by
Stefanie Hartmann
on 16 July, 2004 - 6:54pm
Last updated 17 September, 2010 - 2:30pm
Hornworm
Looks like a tobacco hornworm, and those are probably wasps developing on it. From the gardening literature I've read, if you find a hornworm with parasites like these, you're supposed to leave it be, so that the wasps can hatch and parasitize other hornworms.
See this image:
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Mike Boone
, 16 July, 2004 - 8:16pm
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