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Beware the walking stick
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Good! I hate those caterpillars!
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We have lots of those around here also. (WS)
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Queue the " jaws " theme music as the stick gets closer to the kill 😁
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Herbivores
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No walking sticks here that I've seen, but for the past two weeks my house has been a Hitchcock with those fargin caterpillars.
We've got far too many of those Tussock Moth Caterpillars here. We also have a few of some other that's not hairy. I was doing the live and let live thing with the caterpillars at first, but I stopped that at least a week ago. Now I go on daily or multiple daily sweeping/killing raids. There seems to be one tree that has most of them in our yard, and that's the one that's closest to the house/porch. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619288920.JPG http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619288920.JPG http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619288920.JPG The good news is that the numbers seem to be decreasing. I'm hoping they are going to the next stage of development. |
Yikes. All those caterpillars all over the place would give me the heebie jeebies.
We have some milkweed planted in a large pot. Every few months we get a batch of caterpillars which we watch get fat. Fortunately they keep contained to the plant, as it's the only thing they eat. Some turn into chrysallis' and eventually Monarchs. It's a neat little science class all in our front yard. |
Tussock moths...those are the nasty critters than decimated Eastern Oregon forests some decades back. For a kill. spray the tree with something sold in most organic gardening shops, called "BT". It bacterial...if they eat a leaf with it, they develop a fatal belly ache. Harmless to pets or humans.
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At first I thought it was a tread about these things. The insect ones don't worry me.
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This was on our sidewalk.....some sort of dragonfly?
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I'm guessing, common white tail, female or juvenile which have less white than the males. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._whitetail.jpg http://www.eih.uh.edu/content/02-about/01-species/uhcc-odonta-scott-clark.pdf |
I hate these guys
http://brookerpestcontrol.com/wp-con...-mole-full.jpg Ugly ugly mole cricket Kill them! With FIRE!!! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...ys/mgwhore.gif |
I have fished with these dudes. They can be nearly 4" long.
hellgrammites larvae (water born)http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619317465.jpg They turn into this, Dobsonfly http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619317535.jpg |
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Last year my lady neighbor came over in a panic. She had a dobsonfly on the side of her house and was scared of the thing. I picked it up and chased her around the yard with it. |
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