The caterpillar looks like a Tomato Hornworm? We had a skunk spray outside our BR window about 11:30 last night...
Tomato hornworm is what I was thinking - I had 4 of those big green rascals on my tomatoes earlier in the season, just chewing up plants like crazy. None had been parasitized so I ended up removing them ... permanently.
This may or may not apply to your skunk situation .....
Why You Are Smelling Skunks This Week
http://blog.nature.org/science/2016/08/31/smelling-skunks-season-summer-behavior-ecology/