Hot temps persist and may be the reason I saw a huge caterpillar in our garden today. This lime green giant is a tomato hornworm, known to decimate tomato and pepper plants in particular, and known to show up in very hot and dry times. When I discovered this huge caterpillar, it was munching on one of the jalapeño peppers ~ a hot pepper for a hot day! After taking a couple of photos, I removed this big guy and put him in the woods. He did not go willingly, clinging ahold of the pepper plant with all his might … so part of the plant went with him :)
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| Munching away on the pepper plant |
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| Biggest caterpillar I've ever seen! |
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