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with white objects that looked like tiny grains of rice. Nature had solved my problem. A parasitic wasp, only a half-inch long, had laid her eggs on the caterpillar. On hatching, they had fed on the fatty tissue of the hornworm and crawled to the surface to spin their own little white cocoons.
My formidable giant was doomed. It would eat no more tomato greenery and would soon be a deflated tube.
Had the hornworm survived, it would have dropped to the ground, and in the long sleep in the soil, miraculously changed and emerged as a night-flying spnynx moth. It is also called hummingbird moth because it hovers in front of deepthroated flowers like a jewel-like bird.
This much I knew, but there was more I wanted to know. I have often wished I could take a whole year off and study insects and become an amateur entomologist.
As a short cut to obtaining more information, I placed a call to my old friend, Nate Erwin, entomologist
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