Today’s venture into the garden revealed a very unwelcome interloper. If this were a server room I’d have to trigger the breach incident protocol. #garden #nature #hornworm

I think a miniature version of the #creature from #alien laid its #eggs on this poor #tomato #hornworm #caterpillar I hope nothing jumps out of a tomato and runs around the kitchen 😳

This guy is on my tomato plant this morning.

That is a tomato #hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata) or close hornworm relative.

those white rice-looking things. Those are parasitoid wasp cocoons, #braconidwasp. The wasp larvae develop in the caterpillar, emerged, and spun white cocoons on its body