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Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
I was spraying my plants for mold and a new friend startled me.
grownsunshine- Posts : 255
Join date : 2013-05-22
Location : So Cal: Zone 10a
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
New Frenemy? They eat my bean leaves without mercy. Thank goodness I have a cat that will dispatch them. All I have to do is show her, "Here he is."
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Grasshopper of some sort?
Marc Iverson- Posts : 3638
Join date : 2013-07-05
Age : 62
Location : SW Oregon
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
sanderson wrote:New Frenemy? They eat my bean leaves without mercy. Thank goodness I have a cat that will dispatch them. All I have to do is show her, "Here he is."
Lilly does that with flies when I say "Git em!" Soon I hear a crunching sound...gruesome.
No strange visitors yet...hardly any bees even. If it wasn't for the ants I don't think my strawberries would be forming...
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Blue Swallowtail Butterfly Caterpillar
I picked one of those multi-colored caterpillars off my flat leaf Italian parsley day before yesterday. I didn't get a pic because a neighbor's 6 year old was fascinated by it and took it to keep inside to see if it will pupate and a chrysalis will appear. He would not be persuaded that it was not a monarch butterfly caterpillar because they had been studying them in school.
rabbithutch- Posts : 293
Join date : 2014-02-08
Location : central TX USA Zone 8a
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Did it look like this?
I found this great site!
http://www.dallasbutterflies.com/Caterpillars/Caterpillars%20of%20North%20Texas.htm
I found this great site!
http://www.dallasbutterflies.com/Caterpillars/Caterpillars%20of%20North%20Texas.htm
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
grownsunshine wrote:I was spraying my plants for mold and a new friend startled me.
A locust or such creature at the end of its life ..I say this as it has turned from green to dark brown . How big is it ??
plantoid- Posts : 4096
Join date : 2011-11-09
Age : 73
Location : At the west end of M4 in the UK
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
I got the fright of my life a few days ago , picking out a few weds out eh flower beds when suddenly a large wasp whizzed past my nose and latched on to a hanging down bell shaped flower .
The thing that made me jump was the size of it , as I watched it come out eh flower several more were doing strafing runs past me to the flowers .
I realised something was amiss so nipped indoors for a glass jar and a lid .
waited till one got well in one of the bells & captured the bell C/W wasp in it , screwing the lid on tight .
I came inside and felt quite queasy at the monster when I looked at it with a magnifying glass .
Had a look on line and couldn't readily find any similar UK native wasp that was 35 mm long from front of its head to the butt end . because of the numbers visiting the flowers I think I can safely say they are worker wasps s not drones or queens.
Well one thing's for sure, there was no way I was going to try and photo it alive outside the jar in Macro with my nose a mere 9 inches away ..I'm not that stoooopid ...HONEST !
I decide the best way to despatch it would be to pop the jar & wasp in the freezer for a few days whilst we are away on a long weekend ( again )
Tonight when I took it out I noticed it has shrunk a smidgeon & has darkened from the bright yellow of the emoticons to the 12 th colour yellow down on the font colour button chart .
I hope to take some pictures tomorrow in good light ( stick it on a mount by using a big darning needle or two to get a better sense of things.
Its face has changed from day glow green to a yellowish colour .. it was the green colour that made me feel queasy ...pure bloody evil it was .
The thing that made me jump was the size of it , as I watched it come out eh flower several more were doing strafing runs past me to the flowers .
I realised something was amiss so nipped indoors for a glass jar and a lid .
waited till one got well in one of the bells & captured the bell C/W wasp in it , screwing the lid on tight .
I came inside and felt quite queasy at the monster when I looked at it with a magnifying glass .
Had a look on line and couldn't readily find any similar UK native wasp that was 35 mm long from front of its head to the butt end . because of the numbers visiting the flowers I think I can safely say they are worker wasps s not drones or queens.
Well one thing's for sure, there was no way I was going to try and photo it alive outside the jar in Macro with my nose a mere 9 inches away ..I'm not that stoooopid ...HONEST !
I decide the best way to despatch it would be to pop the jar & wasp in the freezer for a few days whilst we are away on a long weekend ( again )
Tonight when I took it out I noticed it has shrunk a smidgeon & has darkened from the bright yellow of the emoticons to the 12 th colour yellow down on the font colour button chart .
I hope to take some pictures tomorrow in good light ( stick it on a mount by using a big darning needle or two to get a better sense of things.
Its face has changed from day glow green to a yellowish colour .. it was the green colour that made me feel queasy ...pure bloody evil it was .
plantoid- Posts : 4096
Join date : 2011-11-09
Age : 73
Location : At the west end of M4 in the UK
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Wasps can be frightening -- especially if you're outside trying to eat a sandwich with meat on it -- but I think of most of them as the good guys. Some hornets are so huge that it's hard not to get the willies, though. Sounds like you found a real giant.
Marc Iverson- Posts : 3638
Join date : 2013-07-05
Age : 62
Location : SW Oregon
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
camprn wrote:Did it look like this?
I found this great site!
http://www.dallasbutterflies.com/Caterpillars/Caterpillars%20of%20North%20Texas.htm
Yep! That's him!
Great web site. Thanks for the URL.
rabbithutch- Posts : 293
Join date : 2014-02-08
Location : central TX USA Zone 8a
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
I found this guy in one of my boxes this morning:
Looks like something under a microscope, right? I guess it's a form of dog vomit...
This one gives you an idea of the size of it:
CC
Looks like something under a microscope, right? I guess it's a form of dog vomit...
This one gives you an idea of the size of it:
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Today I found this fella in one of my boxes enjoying a lunch of toad! I love my toads but I let him live. I read where Garter snakes eat slugs, too!
giant_trainer- Posts : 56
Join date : 2013-01-23
Age : 69
Location : Memphis, TN
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
and
I think my sunflower plant can take me in a fair fight...it's taller than me, and it keeps giving me dirty looks.
brainchasm- Posts : 481
Join date : 2013-02-26
Age : 48
Location : Las Vegas, NV
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
found this today....haven't identified it yet
jrfrommd- Posts : 76
Join date : 2014-06-01
Age : 54
Location : Md
Upon closer inspection....
This is not a caterpillar.
It's a mold "bug" on a wilted squash blossom from all of the sauna like conditions in NW Georgia lately.
It's a mold "bug" on a wilted squash blossom from all of the sauna like conditions in NW Georgia lately.
FeedMeSeeMore- Posts : 143
Join date : 2014-05-06
Location : Georgia
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
FeedMeSeeMore wrote:This is not a caterpillar.
It's a mold "bug" on a wilted squash blossom from all of the sauna like conditions in NW Georgia lately.
Kind of neat looking.
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
I left this cute li'l guy to live out it's last days munching on the leaves:
CC
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
CapeC....Is that a hornworm? If it is, it can destroy a tomato plant in a couple of days so I wouldn't let it live. Ugh.
quiltbea- Posts : 4712
Join date : 2010-03-21
Age : 82
Location : Southwestern Maine Zone 5A
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Yes it is, QB. But I want the wasps it's hosting so I'll leave it there. I think it's pretty much paralyzed or on the way out since it doesn't move any.
My yard seems to be a plethora of different kinds of wasps this year.
CC
My yard seems to be a plethora of different kinds of wasps this year.
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
CC, That's rather fascinating to have this event happen in a member's yard and to capture it as a nice photo.
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
A friend sent me this through FB. Click on the caterpillar to see what emerges. Beautiful. http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=19420
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WOWOWOWOWOW! So amazing, thanks, sanderson!
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8721
Join date : 2015-06-12
Age : 62
Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Thanks for that link sanderson. Amazing photos. Such diversity in nature.
trolleydriver
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Join date : 2015-05-04
Age : 76
Location : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Yes, moths are so....cuddly!
Scorpio Rising- Posts : 8721
Join date : 2015-06-12
Age : 62
Location : Ada, Ohio
Re: Any Strange and Wonderful Visitors? Photos please!
Beautiful!
I'd have to wonder about #5 though - almost looks like a tarantula, lol!
Wish they had a pic of a luna moth... I saw one as a kid. It was sleeping on our screen door. My dad found it & showed it to me. I think I was about 7 or 8...? Absolutely gorgeous!
I'd have to wonder about #5 though - almost looks like a tarantula, lol!
Wish they had a pic of a luna moth... I saw one as a kid. It was sleeping on our screen door. My dad found it & showed it to me. I think I was about 7 or 8...? Absolutely gorgeous!
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