Subject: Caterpillar Found on a tomato plant
Geographic location of the bug: Bridgeview, IL
Date: 08/25/2018
Time: 10:09 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Are those eggs on it’s back? Do i need to worry?
How you want your letter signed: Steve Guptill
Dear Steve,
Your caterpillar is a Tobacco Hornworm, and what you have mistaken for eggs are the pupae of a parasitic Braconid Wasp.
What's That Bug? does not endorse extermination
Thanks for your prompt and interesting response. We had no idea of the fascinating things going on right under our noses.