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THIS!!!!!






Thank GOODNESS I've got some HELP! These are the ones that I put on the damaged plant a week ago. 3 out of the 6-8 I put on there are still living, but not for long!!!! I picked army worms and tomato hornworms for over an hour when I got home. I put them all on the herbicide damaged plant! I'm calling it the nursery plant now! I'm super stoked! Found some new members!



The nursery plant.

You can see some of the infested hornworms on the plant!

Congratulations!

...and once those pupae pop open, you'll have even more recruits patrolling the garden

These are really small ones, too! Definitely not the mega large caterpillars that I normally see parasitized.

Yeah, but I think I said before. The white things we see are the cocoons. The adult wasp lays eggs inside the hornworm, which hatch out in to tiny larvae, that eat the hornworm from the inside out. Only when they are ready to pupate and metamorphose into adults do they emerge. So the hornworm has been considerably slowed down for a long time before the cocoon stage.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
I like the way you went with this.

Every hornworm I find, I'm putting on this plant. Regardless of size or health.