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Tomato Bug

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Tomato Hornworm

Manduca quinquemaculata
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The white eggs on this one's back mean that that its system has been completely colonized by the larvae of a brachonid parisitoid wasp. Not an enviable condition, to be sure.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2011

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