This Plant Uses Caterpillar Spit to Call Assassins 🌿🐛 #shorts

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]This caterpillar takes one bite of a tobacco leaf and its own spit seals its doom.

[00:00:06]The tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, is a bright green, 8 cm beast with white stripes and a red-tipped horn. As it chews, the plant tastes chemicals in the caterpillar's saliva.

[00:00:21]Then it fights back. The leaf releases a volatile distress perfume, a chemical scream only killers can smell. Parasitic wasps arrive. They inject eggs inside the hornworm. The larvae devour it alive. One bite, its own spit called the assassins. Follow for more.