This what happens....

[Rudd]

....when you kill your yard with Round Up last year? Straight off Homer Simpson's nuclear plant.

 

[muddy]

That's a friggin cool moth... unless one of the dogs ate grass clippings and turned into that.

 

[Shovelbuck]

Those wings look big enough to make some fletchings from.

I haven't seen one of those in years.

 

[iowabruce]

Now that's cool!

 

[Rudd]

it's wing span was over 6", it's body looked like something from the predator movies.

 

[Kansasdeerslayer]

Awesome pic!

 

[Hoody]

That is a polyphemus moth. We used to see them fairly often, but haven't seen one in a couple of years. They are really cool, and soft. Kind of "furry". Thanks for the photo.

Steve
Polyphemus Moth

 

[dbltree]

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Straight off Homer Simpson's nuclear plant.

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Looks like he was attracted to the "moonscaped" yard there Rudd!

 

[Limb Chicken]

It just never gets old thinking about that post. Can someone find it and link it here... Please!

 

[Rudd]

happy?

 

[River1]

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The caterpillar of the Polyphemus moth can eat 86,000 times its weight at emergence in a little less than two months.


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Rudd, looks like you better shooo him off. Not gonna be enought grass to eat?

 

[Limb Chicken]

Yes sir that is the one... Latest addition to the legends forum!

 

[THA4]

i missed that post when it happend as well.....
however i almost lost my job reading through it....
oh goodness!!!!
Nice work Rudd, even a year late!!!
how does the yard look now....
green or brown, or does a spotty look fit the bill better??

 

[Rudd]

it's not much better. Honest. Last cold spell did a number on it.

 

[Fishbonker]

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it's not much better. Honest. Last cold spell did a number on it.

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Oh sure, now you're tryin to blame Mother Nature.

BTW, did you notice the last day you posted on the original thread was 06/06/06? Looks like the work of the devil to me.

The 'Bonker