I didnt know how to upload the photo so I posted the link, I think that now I am uploading it.

gumby_ct's white speckles are oval cocoons belonging to a tiny wasp (the cocoons are about 1/8" tall, so it really is a tiny wasp). By the time the cocoons appear, the hornworm is beyond moving and the wasp larvae are no longer feeding, but it's advantageous to leave the caterpillar in place so the wasps can emerge and begin their lives' work of keeping more hornworms from becoming moths and breeding another generation of worms. I tend to see about four hornworms in the same area at a time.

How are you going about it? Copy/paste won't work. You MUST either use the camera icon at the bottom of the posting box (don't rely on double clicking, use the buttons offered to you) OR use a live link to a photo posted somewhere on the web already via the link icon below that box. I don't know if all the odd ways are working or have been crippled, but those two methods still work as of ten minutes ago. With FFox.

Hi everyone. Trish - Been there and done that! It seems this problem of loading pic's follows me on a couple of different forums. I was able to load pic's on here OK originally and then I couldn't. I gave it a miss for a few days and tried again, but finally I gave up trying to load pic's. It was maybe two months later I thought I'd try again with a few new pic's and it worked. I didn't do anything different in regards to loading, so it maybe the size of the pic's I was trying to load originally were too big. Trish, the programme I use is Microsoft Picture Manager which is part of Microsoft Office and what I do is bring up the picture I want to post, go to the task bar and click on "edit". A pop up screen called "Edit Pictures" will show on the right side of your picture giving you various editing choices. I scroll down to to the bottom where it shows in bold print "Change Picture Size", and I click on "Resize". Another pop up screen will appear called "Resize Settings" and on this there are several options. I go to option three which is an elongated box under the heading of "Predefined width and height" and click on that Within this box will appear six other options; I select option 3 "Web Large" (640 x 480 px) and click OK which will automatically reduce the size of you pic. You could try other options also but this is the one I find that works for me. All the best, Nev