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With Friends Like These...
With Friends Like These...
ShaneBlake


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Challenge: Free Study 2014-09 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D7100
Lens: Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di for Nikon
Location: The Man Cave
Date: Sep 7, 2014
Aperture: 25.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Date Uploaded: Sep 7, 2014

This is a tomato hornworm. Those are tiny braconid wasp cocoons. The larvae grew inside, eating him alive, then crawled out and attached themselves to the skin. This doesn't kill the hornworm, just makes it really sick/paralyzed.

Evidently, they've recently hatched.

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Place: 30 out of 154
Avg (all users): 6.2903
Avg (commenters): 6.8889
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Views since voting: 376
Views during voting: 155
Votes: 93
Comments: 11
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10/08/2014 01:07:43 AM
very cool process. thank you for finding it.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/07/2014 10:08:46 PM
fascinating.
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10/07/2014 03:20:25 PM
Thems is no friends, thems are dinner guests.
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10/07/2014 03:18:13 PM
Nice details and sharpness but ewwww!!
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10/07/2014 12:32:46 PM
ew
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10/06/2014 11:46:52 PM
Looks like someone left the acupuncture's clinic without paying!!!
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10/05/2014 12:17:32 PM
Fantastic macro, never ever seen something like this before. Beautiful!
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10/04/2014 11:54:23 PM
Wow, that's brutal, what are those little things attached to him? Excellently captured cycle of life here, makes me feel sorry for the caterpillar though.
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10/04/2014 02:49:58 PM
UUrgh. But a great capture! Reminds me of an episode of Dr Who I saw when I was a child -just hope it doesn't give me the same nightmares!
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10/02/2014 11:29:16 AM
That is quite an amazing find
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10/01/2014 12:42:07 PM
Well captured. And he's a pesky caterpillar, anyway. And such is life. Although ... some part of me still feels sorry for the caterpillar.
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