Rather vividly illustrated.
I found this on one of the chile plants. It's a tomato hornworm, the caterpillar of a five-spotted hawk moth. It is (unwillingly) hosting the eggs of a braconid wasp, which will eventually kill the caterpillar.
Those who grow tomatoes (and chiles, I imagine), are big fans of the wasps. I'm indifferent to the wasps, but I'm rather a fan of those hummingbird-sized moths.
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