cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17588319

[Image description: a thicc green hornworm hanging onto the stem of a tomato plant. The hornworm is speckled with little white dots, has eyespots and angular white stripes down his side, and the namesake sharp little spike of a horn on its butt.]

  • @I_Fart_GlitterEnglish
    21•1 month ago

    When I was a kid I had a dog who loved to put these guys in his mouth. He’d come in with a funny look on his face, we’d lift up his lips and he’d have one or several of them tucked up between his gums and cheek like it was tobacco. No idea why that was so appealing to him.