I don't guess tomato pests are ever welcome but what a gorgeous pest!

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I don't guess tomato pests are ever welcome but what a gorgeous pest!
Manduca Quinquemaculata
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/hornworm.htm
Late instar larva of the tomato hornworm, Manduca quinquemaculata(Haworth).
Pupa of Manduca quinquemaculata
Adults: Adults of the tomato hornworm are commonly referred to as five-spotted hawkmoths (Figure 4), referring to the pairs of orange-yellow markings along the sides of the abdomen. These moths are heavy-bodied and relatively large, though they are very capable flyers. Their graceful, agile flying behavior and overall body shape is reminiscent of a hummingbird, and moths in the Sphingidae family are sometimes referred to as hummingbird moths (Cranshaw 2004). The adult moths nocturnally visit flowers, feeding on nectar.
Adults fly at dusk, and females deposit eggs singly on the upper surface of host plant leaves
How to identify tomato hornworms (Manduca quinquemaculata)
Parasitized hornworm
General predatory insects such as lady beetles and green lacewings often prey upon the egg stage and on young caterpillars.
Another important predator is the paper wasp, Polistes spp. This common wasp feeds on many types of caterpillars including those found in gardens.
Tomato hornworms are also parasitized by a number of insects.
One of the most common is a small braconid wasp, Cotesia congregatus.
Larvae hatching from wasp eggs are laid on the hornworm.
The wasp larvae feed on the inside of the hornworm until the wasp is ready to pupate.
The cocoons look like white rice protruding from the hornworm's body.
If you see this happening, leave the hornworms in the garden to allow the adult wasps to emerge.
These wasps kill the hornworms when they emerge from the cocoons.
Then the wasps look for other hornworms to parasitize.
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