Hanging out on a Sun Gold plant

by Old_Spice_2023

33 Comments

  1. Queasy-Poetry4906

    And I thought I was having a bad day 🐛💥

  2. carboncopy95437

    Rough way to die. Semi-paralyzed by wasp larvae.

  3. Itwasaboutthepasta

    Transformed a nasty pest into an army of garden enforcers 

  4. BoozeIsTherapyRight

    Oooh, awesome! You won the garden jackpot.

  5. GaHillBilly_1

    Harsh photographic reality flies in the face of “Nature Lovers” who believe in a kind and gentle “Mother Nature”.

    Farming is war, and currently we just lost the war with Marek’s disease. (Well, the chickens lost, but we are losing the chickens. Unvaccinated chicks? Never again!)

  6. FuckinJuice_

    Might those be Everglades tomatoes? 🍅

  7. weedandmead94

    Covered in parasitic wasps. Nature’s pest control

  8. Extension_Deer7433

    This is why I occasionally shout “Wasps, swarm attack” in my garden. Love them now that I know they protect from hornworms. 

  9. Weekly-Major1876

    kind caterpillar babysits and rocks developing wasp pupae in silk cocoons to sleep after BIG meal

  10. …but while the wasp larvae do their thing, you Sun Gold plant is getting devoured.

  11. livingfordogs

    Ohhh. I just removed this guy today. Didn’t have the heart to hurt him so just relocated. But apparently a swift death would have been kinder 😳

  12. GallusWrangler

    So thankful when I see them like this.

  13. Wasps are great. They devour tomato hornworms.

  14. bubbsnana

    If I saw this irl, I would legit pass out in terror. Primal fear of mine.

  15. kinezumi89

    I saw a [super interesting youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BYtQt68-5w) the other day that explains that the caterpillar doesn’t actually die from the parasites – when the wasp lays eggs in the caterpillar, it also transmits a virus that eventually paralyzes it, so it doesn’t accidentally skoosh the eggs bending around. I always assumed the eggs eventually did the caterpillar in, but it actually dies from starvation

  16. StrosDynasty

    I hate hornworms as much as I love braconid wasp larvae.

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