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Thanks, Stubble. I didn't know those were cocoons, makes sense the wasp laid the eggs under the skin. Should have delved past my assumptions.

My Wife has been finding tomato hornworms, a type of caterpillar, in the garden, like this...

I guess they'd be a perfect addition to a nothingburger. A nothingburger with an AI egg on top.

Nothing. They taste like nothing.

If any show up with eggs glued on their backs don't kill them. The eggs look like small grains of rice.

If the caterpillar is carrying what looks like grains of white rice on its back, it is probably almost or already dead.

It has been inoculated by a parasitic braconid wasp that laid its eggs underneath the skin of the hornworm.

The wasp larvae actually feed on the caterpillar starting a process of desiccation that causes it to dry up and die. By the time the wasp larvae spin their white rice-like cocoons, the caterpillar has suffered irreversible damage and can no longer damage your tomato crop.