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Re: Weird Worm with lotsa friends

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...Charlie... said:

>This morning I found two very large (2 inches or so) nearly dead or dead
>green worms covered with dozens of small oval white objects (Eggs?)on my
>tomato plants. What are they?.

Ah, once again the hornworm strikes. Don't do anything to a live hornworm 
covered with those eggs. There is a parasitic wasp that is a natural 
predator of the hornworm, and those are the eggs of the wasp. Not killing 
them will ensure a future supply of the wasps for your garden, and thus 
fewer hornworms.

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