Comments on: Bug de la semaine

By: ae

ae — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:53:13 +0000

I love the Varmint Center. Great eye, Twisty! You find some awesome fauna.

By: Pretty Lady

Pretty Lady — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:21:45 +0000

You take the varmints, I’ll take the epiphytes. Well done, sister.

By: I Heart Twisty

I Heart Twisty — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:22:54 +0000

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By: octopod

octopod — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:23:56 +0000

Ohhhh. What a pretty creature.

You know, the other day I saw a Jerusalem cricket on the grass strip by the sidewalk, right here in Pasadena. Totally awesome and unexpected. It was fat and shiny and pretty, too.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:15:19 +0000

Ooo, da pretty cattlepillow!

By: annared

annared — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:05:23 +0000

Back in the Crimean, when I was a student nurse on night shift sat Florence Nightingale like round a [electric] lamp; we used to be under constant attacks from the hugest beastie moths one can imagine. Some students ran for the City Hospitals never to return - I remained and became a fine countrified nurse.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:47:21 +0000

Don’t feel too bad, deciduous. The walnut sphinx spends much of its life as a ravenous worm, constantly feasting worm.

By: deciduousfruit

deciduousfruit — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:45:45 +0000

forsooth! not even TACOS? Here I am shivering up in OR with nary a taco in sight and this little bug, er, bugger? has the gall to spend its entire adult life NOT indulging in the bountiful texmex?

By: Betsy

Betsy — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:04:09 +0000

AAAAA!! {{{{>_

By: ksbugwoman

ksbugwoman — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:44:41 +0000

That is an excellent bug, and I know bugs. We raised a Polyphemus caterpillar last year, who spun a nice cocoon inside a rolled-up leaf. After wintering outside, he came out as a huge, spectacular moth. We took pity on him and released him into the wild, since we knew he could smell every female moth within flying distance.

http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk/caterpillars/polyphemus_moth.html