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Old 31-08-2007, 12:28 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens
Mary Fisher Mary Fisher is offline
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Default Tomato Hornworm with wasp eggs


"Ann" wrote in message
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"Jane Doe" wrote in message
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Left it alone after finding it on one of my tomato plants.

-M

That's amazing - are the eggs laid on the larva?

Mary

Yes. If anyone finds a tomato hornworm that looks like this you
should let it live (as Jane Doe did). You'll have those parasitic
wasps in your garden


We don't have tomato hornworms though :-)

There aren't many pests which damage our tomatoes (in Britain). Slugs will
eat them when they're little and we do get whitefly but I've never been able
to see what damage they do.

That hornworm looks unfriendly ...

Mary