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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17588319

[Image description: a thicc green hornworm hanging onto the stem of a tomato plant. The hornworm is speckled with little white dots, has eyespots and angular white stripes down his side, and the namesake sharp little spike of a horn on its butt.]

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[–] Hikermick 6 points 3 months ago

My first year gardening I found one of these. Not knowing what it was I put it in a Mason jar and crammed in the rest of the branch it was feasting on. By the next day it had devoured every bit of it and looked like it was starving