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Hornworm Meets Alien
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This video was conceptualized and created by Rick Foster and John Obermeyer, Purdue Extension Entomology, and assisted by Sarah Thompson, Purdue Entomology graduate now with Dow AgroSciences in Hawaii. Home gardeners often notice fuzzy, white eggs on hornworms in the later-summer. These are actually the spun cocoons of parasites, in the wasp family Braconidae, that fed and grew within the hornworm, nearly killing it in the process. Tiny wasps will soon emerge from the cocoons and mate, then females will seek other hornworms in which to insert their eggs. Watch time-lapse photography of hornworms feeding on a green tomato, wasp larvae emerging (chewing their way through the skin), pupating, and then emerging as adults in minutes...music included. Enjoy! This video was submitted to the Open category of the 2012 ESA YouTube Your Entomology contest. For more information, visit http://entsoc.org/entomology2012/yout....
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