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Caterpillar id

9 years ago

I received a few eggplant plants from a neighbor. While cutting them back to plant into my garden, I found a monster of a caterpillar on one of the plants. Thinking it was some kind of butterfly, I released the thing into my garden onto some rapeseed plants that sprouted from bird seed. It crawled to the bottom of the plant and rested in the mulch below. After looking up images on google though, it looks to be a tomato hornworm. Yikes. Tell me it isn't so. At the least tell me that it's full grown and won't do much damage.

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