Friday, July 9, 2010

SQUEEZABLES

As I often tell my sucidal friends, "there's always something to look forward to..."
For me, it's a Horn Worm invasion in Ira's tomato crop. A perfect couple, he wants to destroy them and I want to save them - who could kill something that looks like the Hookah Smoking Caterpillar?
So, once again, I am raising hornworms. Very interesting, these larval Sphinx Moths.They bury themselves to pupate - remember in the movie, "Silence of the Lambs" when the entomologist extracts a foreign object from a cadaver's trachea - that was the chrysalis of a hornworm. A Baby Sphinx Moth. Of course, in the movie it was the "Death's Head Sphinx."! WHAT A BEAUTY!

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