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.]

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      65 months ago

      I know! Also, they are pollinators. And it tickles when they lick drops of water off one’s fingertips. But I will not dissuade myself.