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Offline Ridgeratt

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Eating good in the neighborhood
« on: August 27, 2022, 03:08:46 PM »
Neighbor up the road and I went exploring this morning.  We found this critter on a elderberry bush.
« Last Edit: August 27, 2022, 03:46:04 PM by Ridgeratt »

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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood 😵‍💫
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2022, 03:10:51 PM »
One more picture.

About a 1/3 of the leaves had been eaten off the bush.
« Last Edit: August 27, 2022, 03:35:01 PM by Ridgeratt »

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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood 😵‍💫
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2022, 03:17:31 PM »
Klaus Shwab says it's what's for dinner. :chuckle:
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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2022, 04:42:36 PM »
Seen either the same or similar plowing through tomato plants......but not here in W. WA.

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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2022, 04:47:31 PM »
I think that is going to be a big polyphemus moth, not a sphinx moth like a tomato horn worm, nice, thanks

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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2022, 05:51:36 PM »
Actually looks like a Luna moth caterpillar! Either species is a cool looking moth. You should have caught it and keep it in something until it pupates!

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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2022, 05:56:58 PM »
I poked it some and it wasn't moving. The only thing I could have put it in was my pocket.

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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2022, 05:57:41 PM »
Grandkids would have loved to feed that to the fish.  They were giving the turkeys competition on the grasshoppers.
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Re: Eating good in the neighborhood
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2022, 05:03:40 AM »
THats awesome.   Nice find.  I have a few nice pics of what he'll grow up into somewhere on here.

I was thinking Cecropia NWwanderer. Elderberry is a favorite host plant of theirs


Typically arent found in Washington, though I have photographed them here much to the dismay of a bunch of Butterfly experts. LOL   I'm not sure where Ridge is at these days.

« Last Edit: August 29, 2022, 05:20:05 AM by boneaddict »

 


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