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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: Ridgeratt on August 27, 2022, 03:08:46 PM

Title: Eating good in the neighborhood
Post by: Ridgeratt 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.
Title: Re: Eating good in the neighborhood 😵‍💫
Post by: Ridgeratt on August 27, 2022, 03:10:51 PM: One more picture.

About a 1/3 of the leaves had been eaten off the bush.
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Post by: Humptulips on August 27, 2022, 03:17:31 PM: Klaus Shwab says it's what's for dinner. :chuckle:
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Post by: Fidelk 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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Post by: nwwanderer 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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Post by: LDennis24 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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Post by: Ridgeratt 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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Post by: Ghost Hunter 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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Post by: boneaddict 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.