Please help ID this caterpillar

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kbreeze Mastic, NY Aug 18, 2015

We found this in our tomato plant. It's a green caterpillar with all these white pods attached to it's back.

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Aug 18, 2015

Guessing it is a Tomato Hornworm, the caterpillar of a Five Spotted Hawk Moth, Manduca quinquemaculata. Difficult (for me) to tell for sure because of the extensive covering of cocoons of parasitic Braconid wasp larva.

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