anything remarkable happen?

[wyndhy]

care to share?

this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_sexta) fascinating creature was discovered on our jalapeno plant devouring a pepper the other day. i have been mightily entertained ever since.

[sodaklostsoul]

He looks like a penis head on one end and has an eye on every section.

[scotzoidman]

I had heard my father mention "tobacco worms" once long ago, but had never seen one up close myself. Suffice it to say, he didn't have anything nice to say about the little buggers ;) He related to me that he spent many hot muggy days in the fields, searching for & removing any little pesky worms; he also told me that they could spit tobacco juice at anybody who dared to disturb their feeding time, a fact that's confirmed by the Wiki article.
M. sexta has mechanisms for selectively sequestering and secreting the neurotoxin nicotine present in tobacco.
For the record, he grew up in a little nowhere farming community in west Tennessee, where farming & similar manual labor was all he had to look forward to...unless, of course, he found an escape route called the U S Army ;)

[Lilith]

I have never seen one and grow peppers every year. Way cool. Well way cool if you dig garden pests :D

[PantyFanatic]

Way cool even if you don't dig garden pests, Wyndhy. ;)

I never knew there was such a thing as a tobacco worm that could spit, but I have seen way too many of the tomato worms and that was my first thought before reading the Wiki.

Thanks for sharing. :)

[wyndhy]

we thought is was a tomato worm too. then i wanted to know when and for how this thing was gonna pupate (or whatever it's called) so i wikied. (ooohhhmmmm.) and wiki told me it was a tobacco worm.(oohhmmm.:D)

we've lost one whole habanero plant and most of 2 jalapeno plants - no fruit left since yesterday, one has more leaves left than the other. this voracious critter is amazing to watch. totally worth some hot peppers. i can't decide if i should submit it to the final solution yet. perhaps i will feed it, and cover this last plant with a terrarium of some sort, so we can watch it do it's thing and then final solutionate the moth. i shoulodn't let it go to wreak possible havoc on our farmer neighbors, neighbor neighbors, or us. perhaps we'll introduce a female wasp into it's home and see if we can't get a whole nother learning experience outta this.:D

[Lilith]

I want to watch the lesson where you sex the wasp.

[wyndhy]

can't you just buy those somewhere?:D

[PantyFanatic]

I want to watch the lesson where you sex the wasp.It will be the one without the dick. :nod:












:rofl:

[gekkogecko]

"Looks tasty", says the lizard.

Oh, yes, they really are used for the feeder market for pet lizards.
See, for example: http://www.mulberryfarms.com/horn2.htm

[wyndhy]

he's gone!
@%*)^$!!!
we went out after dinner and no tobacco worm.:(

he musta checked in to pixies and saw my evil plan.:p
or gg ate him

[PantyFanatic]

He was outside on the bird perch, I mean plants, I take it.

[gekkogecko]

He was delicious!

[scotzoidman]

How can you eat that worm? It looks just like spaghetti...

[wyndhy]

i just watched a spider attack and kill a skeeter hunter.