Spofford: Parasitism

The tomato hornworm, Manduca quinquemaculata, and a species of bracnoid wasps, Cotesia congregatus, display parasitism because the wasp lays its eggs within the caterpillar. The larvae feed on the hornworm and eat their way out where they spin cocoons, the white things that can be seen attatched to the hornworm. Once the wasps emerge from the cocoons, the hornworm will die because it was already weakened by the larvae feeding on it.
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