Texas Gardening: Help for a friend , 1 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
I had pictures of the infested hornworm. Sad but this also happens to butterfly caterpillars but on the inside. When they start to make their chrysalis, they die and the nasty fly or wasp parasites emerge.
This hornworm will die too, but just look at all the empty cases releasing more of the parasites! Farmers use them to control infestations, but the parasites are wiping out our butterfly population because they don't stay in their gardens! OK...off my soap box.