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i need advice: wasps hatched inside hornworms skin and ate its insides+ my birthday !

hello! september 9th was my birthday (yesterday lol)

and something happened that i wasnt expecting holy shit

i have tomato plants i grow every year

well i went outside and boom. these tomatoes stems were gone.

nothing but a stick. something had ate it overnight and i was like "darnnit"

there was also a weird smell coming from it (foreshadowing lol)

i wasn't upset because i had two, this one had no tomatoes on it so i wasnt heartbroken

well the next day, i look at the one with tomatoes growing on it and theres a HUGE weird lookin green thing on it

i realized it was a plump caterpillar! it was green with white stripes on it, and had weird spikes on its back

well i looked it up, its called a tomato hornworm

its not good

heres whats happening to the worm:

these spikes are parasitic wasp cocoons

a female wasp stuck her thingy into this caterpillar and laid eggs

these larva hatched to eat the insides of the caterpillar

and eventually chew its way threw the caterpillars skin and create a lil tunnel

continue to feed on its organs as the poor thing is living

but paralyzed, unable to move, eat, exept move its head.

eventually the wasps will break free and kill the hornworm in the process

after learning this, i checked the other plant that was eaten already and

there was a dead caterpillar that was infested with parasites, except there was ANOTHERspecies of wasps, paper wasps, eating its rotten body

it was almost decapitated; it was literally held together by a piece of skin.

what should i do with the living one? end its sufferings? or let the wasps take their course? heck, the wasps dont sting/bite and are good for our environment

idk man

thank god it was paralyzed before it got to my tomatoes tho

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Fuck wasps! Kill them all! :marseybeheading:

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