Slugs

I have two things in common with slugs:  I like eating the vegetables from our garden and I like to drink beer.  Unlike the slugs, I can keep from drowning myself in beer (usually).  Brad 6, Slugs 0.

Bugs

I find a lot of bugs in the garden.

There was a hole in one of our squash.  When I cut it open, I found this guy inside:

Later, while picking tomatoes, I found this caterpillar:

I put it in a jar for safekeeping until I could check the internet to see if it was a tomato-eater.  Then I found this one:

According to the internet, they’re both tomato hornworms.  The second caterpillar is covered with parasitic wasp cocoons.  The wasps will eat the caterpillar when they emerge from their cocoons.  The internet recommends I leave the wasp-infested caterpillar in the garden so the wasps will kill other hornworms when they hatch.  Go wasps!