Nickie 1/365

I was going to submit something a little more personal to kick off my first
year of Envisage, but I found three of these guys in my (dying) garden last
night, and couldn't pass them up. I'm a bit of a science geek, so I had to
find out what these creepy little caterpillars are. Turns out they're a
type of hornworm and the things on their backs are the cocoons of a
beneficial parasitic wasp. The mama wasp lays eggs inside the caterpillar,
the eggs hatch and eat their way out, and then they build cocoons on their
host's back. One less caterpillar to eat my tomatoes!