Cocoons of Braconid wasps on the back of the hornworm. Leave it, let the wasps hatch, and enjoy having more garden predators around.
Xeverdrix
Oh I just learned about these, I think it’s a type of parasitic wasp. They lay their eggs onto the caterpillars and then the larvae eats the caterpillar. If it’s not doing to much damage to the plants or you have somewhere you can relocate it too do that, that way whatever is eating the caterpillar can grow into more wasps to eat more caterpillars .
StarBlitzCptn
Today is a good day. Use it as hornworm control, wasps will hatch out of those eggs and kill more of these evil, evil bastards.
IRunWithScissors87
That is nature’s karma. Unfortunately I do not have these wasps where I’m from. The burden rests solely upon my shoulders to be the slayer of hornworms.
To the asshole that ate half my death dragon pepper, I hope your 3rd eye bled with the heat of hades and I will pike your head as a warning to the others.
Elon_Bezos420
Hornworm, fuck those guys, they strip your plants of leaves
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NEC_Bullfrog
You’re enemy has met it’s enemy!
toolsavvy
Damn, I’m so glad the hornworms in my garden never touch my peppers, just my tomatoes. And I even have tomatoes right up against pepper plants with hornworms on them, every year.
I also never get them on my bush/determinate tomatoes, only vine/indeterminate tomatoes.
I wonder if planting a few vine/indeterminate tomato plants, even if you don’t want them, is a good strategy to keep them off pepper plants?
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Cocoons of Braconid wasps on the back of the hornworm. Leave it, let the wasps hatch, and enjoy having more garden predators around.
Oh I just learned about these, I think it’s a type of parasitic wasp. They lay their eggs onto the caterpillars and then the larvae eats the caterpillar. If it’s not doing to much damage to the plants or you have somewhere you can relocate it too do that, that way whatever is eating the caterpillar can grow into more wasps to eat more caterpillars .
Today is a good day. Use it as hornworm control, wasps will hatch out of those eggs and kill more of these evil, evil bastards.
That is nature’s karma. Unfortunately I do not have these wasps where I’m from. The burden rests solely upon my shoulders to be the slayer of hornworms.
To the asshole that ate half my death dragon pepper, I hope your 3rd eye bled with the heat of hades and I will pike your head as a warning to the others.
Hornworm, fuck those guys, they strip your plants of leaves
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You’re enemy has met it’s enemy!
Damn, I’m so glad the hornworms in my garden never touch my peppers, just my tomatoes. And I even have tomatoes right up against pepper plants with hornworms on them, every year.
I also never get them on my bush/determinate tomatoes, only vine/indeterminate tomatoes.
I wonder if planting a few vine/indeterminate tomato plants, even if you don’t want them, is a good strategy to keep them off pepper plants?
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