"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may." Robert Herrick
Monday, June 21, 2010
THEY'RE HERE
The aliens have been here all along - we just didn't know what to look for. The tops of my tomato plants were sticks today and some of the green tomatoes were half eaten. Squirrels! Had to be. So I started looking at my plants and found this big guy munching away. It is bigger than my thumb. Needless to say, I removed it to a sunflower and it immediately tucked its head down and played opossum. Unlike Great Grandma Merriot, who used to pinch them, I released this Tomato Horn worm into a patch of volunteer tomatoes. It will grow up to be a Sphinx Moth.
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you are too nice...he is rather alien in appearance. I am not as nice to the caterpillars that eat my plants.....
I love the photo! The pattern/camouflage on his skin is great. Thank you!
No sign of these great beasts yet, but boy did my chickens love to munch on these tender vittles...GROSSS...too much guts for me!
However I have been squishing the cabbage worms, they are on my last nerve...can't wait to see how many grasshoppers I have this year, the rains have kept the hoards to a minimum, but now they cometh!!!
I think I'll can the beans, my freezer doth runneth over with the strawberries. I have a small freezer in storage at my Grannies house, but if I plug that sucker in, next year I'll grow everything under the sun!!! I did let my snow peas go though, I just couldn't get to 'um, I'll munch a few for breakfast if I find one under 6 inches...derned fickle weather!!!
What a freaky looking thing! Great photos tho! Me? Can't kill any thing.
Never have been able to. Catch spiders in the house and release them outside. Wait! I did kill a stinging scorpion in the house, but felt bad.
OMG!! I have to admit, I love those markings that look like little eyeballs.
Amazing! Your right, very alien. Great pictures!
Love your Amazon (right column) ... such a beauty!
What weird beauty! Now I'm wondering how the
sphinx moth compares?
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