About once each year we find a large and revolting larval form on the property. This year's catch is a tomato hornworm, found by Barry this morning on the concrete patio, nowhere near the tomatoes. It is 7 cm long, firm and leathery to the touch, and enjoys doing laps of whatever it is trapped in or sticking its head in the ground when permitted to roam about the lawn. Unfortunately, the grotesque undulations of its locomotion can't be conveyed by the still camera. If some lucky bird hasn't snapped up our hornworm by morning, maybe I will get a video.
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