caterpillar ID
I found this guy on one of my tomato plants this morning, any idea what it is? I think it's a tomato hornworm but the white spikes are unusual.
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Looks like a D6. 😂
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Tomato hornworm. The white spikes are the larvae of a parasitic wasp. Even before you smoosh it, that is one dead caterpillar. When they hatch, they eat it alive. Bye, Felicia. 3 -
Cool, learned something new today! 0 -
They turn into a Sphinx moth, or Hummingbird moth that you see flitting around the flowers in the evening. 0 -
fried green catomater 0 -
Had six of them almost strip 3 tomato plants bare overnight last year. Plucked them off, took them to the lake in front of the house, fish seem to relish them. The white things are parasites. 0 -
Tomato horn worm, a sphinx moth larva, seriously infested with the larvae (actually the white things are the pupae) of parasitoid wasps. 0 -
I have stripped the wasp larva off of them never knew if they made it , but gave them a slight chance 0 -
DR those are the pupae. The larvae have already feasted on the caterpillar. The parasitoid wasps are small enough to go through screen wire mesh. 0
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