What is happening to this caterpillar on my tomatoes?
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My final answer: parasitic wasp larvae. Just what it sounds like. They laid their eggs in the very hungry caterpillar.
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Eeeeewwwwww
sep 1, 2025, 7:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Just like the Alien movies.
sep 2, 2025, 1:26 am • 2 0 • view
I’m not an expert but I think it’s a Chia Pet.
sep 1, 2025, 7:16 pm • 8 0 • view
😂🤣😂
sep 1, 2025, 7:18 pm • 2 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I have a Trump head Chia Pet, still in the box. I’ll make a killing once he kicks it! (might be soon🤞)
sep 2, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
That was the second thought that came to my mind. 😅
sep 1, 2025, 8:24 pm • 2 0 • view
deadly virus for the tomato worm
sep 2, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
iow dead caterpillar crawling
sep 2, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
Babies!
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it's turning into a hedgehog?
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Is that the beginning of a cocoon?
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Apparently it’s parasitic wasp eggs 😱
sep 1, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh. 😞
sep 1, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re good. They kill the tomato caterpillars.
sep 1, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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Oh my!!!!
sep 1, 2025, 7:18 pm • 6 0 • view
What she said..be glad you have wasps to control the tomato horn worms..they can decimate your garden quickly.
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Yikes.
sep 2, 2025, 9:52 am • 1 0 • view
Consider it a workplace hazard of doing unsolicited business in the Rexing planter box
sep 1, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I like the way you think, Jesse!
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Rick Karban found that, despite having hosted all those parasites, the host larva sometimes survives
sep 2, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
Wasp larvae are eating it
sep 2, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
What wig?
sep 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Bad for the caterpillar, good for your ‘maters…
sep 1, 2025, 7:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Braconid wasp eggs. They are eating the Hornworm. Hornworms are bad for your plants, this is a good thing.
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🤣😂🤣
sep 1, 2025, 10:49 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s not a caterpillar, love. That’s a tomato worm. It needs to go away. It will eat your plants and poop on everything.
sep 1, 2025, 8:20 pm • 6 1 • view
The wasp larvae is handling the situation for them—all good And blech—whenever I see this it gives me the heebees
sep 2, 2025, 2:40 am • 7 0 • view
It’s basically the movie Aliens
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