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Wow what a cool looking caterpillar. Are you going to try raising it?

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!potatoes!
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yes! all of the giant silk moths have pretty crazy-looking caterpillars. at one point in college an imperial moth (aka royal walnut moth) got into my room one weekend while I was gone, couldn't get out, layed eggs and died. their caterpillars are the 'hickory horned devils':
[img]https://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j248/khoomeizhi/for%20web/images-3.jpg[/img]

I kept the eggs, and borrowed an aquarium to use to rear them. it was an effort to keep up with their appetite for hickory and walnut leaves. good times.

cecropias are really good-looking moths, too.

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One of the reasons I don't leave the porch lights on.

Mothra

[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Nature/peasandmoth001.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Nature/peasandmoth007.jpg[/img]

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I don't know what it is, but my children called them Sci-Fi worms. They are so big I can hear them chewing! They are the same color as your tomato vines, but you can see the poop, then look straight up! If they were any bigger, I'd have to shoot them!

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DoubleDogFarm wrote: [img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Nature/peasandmoth001.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h300/eric_wa/Double%20Dog%20Farm%20%20%20Nature/peasandmoth007.jpg[/img]
polyphemus, too! soon the whole family'll be here!



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