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Parasitized tobacco hornworm
Manduca sexta
39.2454, -81.705
Field Notes
Description:
The progression of the parasitoidism of a tobacco hornworm. The first picture shows the larval wasps emerging from the hornworm's body. The second picture shows the wasps emerging four days later (on August 12), and then three days later (on August 15), after all the wasps had emerged from their cocoons. The last picture shows a few of the adult wasps after they have emerged.
Notes:
For more about what happened to this caterpillar, go here: http://normalbiology.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-hard-to-be-hornworm.html
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