Me, too! If moose knew how tasty they are, they would hide in the woods and never come out.Evo said:I cry for your no moose, comrad turbo.
I love moose - with blackberry - or even better, cloudberry - sauce.turbo-1 said:
The ghosts of my ancestors would certainly exact retribution of some sort.Our season has pretty much finished here too. Right now we're getting the remnants of Hannah, which is the first substantial rain in a few weeks. The trees and other plants are really stressed. It seems we'll have an early winter. The peppers stopped flowering weeks ago, the tomatos are full of fruit - they did quite well this year. The raspberries are starting to prepare for winter, but the blackberry canes are still growing and some of those reaching the ground have rooted. Only one of the blueberry bushes still has fruit - and they are very sweet.Evo said:Fall is here. several days ago it hit with a storm and temperatures have been in the 50-60's ever since. It's thrown several of my bell pepper plants into shock and they've drop most of their leaves and blooms. The long term forcast doesn't indicate any warming, so I am afraid my hopes of a long growing season are shot.
turbo-1 said:
That simple little trap works really well. During the times when we are picking tomatoes, peaches, etc and have them ripening on the counter, a trap like that keeps the fly population down to reasonable levels. Like you, I use cider vinegar with no other baits.Borek said:
Astronuc said:
aaarrgghhh!turbo-1 said:we are expecting a hard frost tonight, so i have harvested all of my peppers. I got at least 2 bushels of chili peppers of various types, though the habanero harvest was a bit thin. Guess who i found chewing on my jalapeno plants?
he and his cohort have also been chewing the skin off my jalapeno peppers. They chew the habanero plants, but they leave those super-hot chilies alone. Stupid, lazy assassin bugs! This guy was really fat and over 3" long - he could have fed a whole family of assassin bugs for days! Assassin bugs, you're fired!
Pretty impressive tobacco hornworm Turbo! They seem to appreciate a varied diet (all in the nightshades). His days are already numbered, siince you've taken away the prize (peppers) plus the hard freeze. He won't be a very happy camperturbo-1 said:
I believe they are markings like the other pairs.. Here's some info from those more familiar with larval anatomy. http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/newscolumns/archives/OSL/2006/June/060622OSL.htmMath Is Hard said:
?)turbo-1 said:We are expecting a hard frost tonight, so I have harvested all of my peppers. I got at least 2 bushels of chili peppers of various types, though the habanero harvest was a bit thin. Guess who I found chewing on my jalapeno plants?
He and his cohort have also been chewing the skin off my jalapeno peppers. They chew the habanero plants, but they leave those super-hot chilies alone. Stupid, lazy assassin bugs! This guy was really fat and over 3" long - he could have fed a whole family of assassin bugs for days! Assassin bugs, you're fired!
Thanks! That was with my Canon 30D and 28-135mm at 135mm and about at the closest macro distance. He's one real ugly fellow - well, he was anyway. He is an ex-horn worm since shortly after I took his obituary photo.baywax said:
Close,[/URL] though I didn't notice Princess Leia in a gold bikini anywhere about.lisab said:
You jumped the gun, Evo. TODAY is international talk like a pirate day.Evo said:
turbo-1 said:
Wow! That's an amazing photo! It makes him look so cute, I want to cuddle him!turbo-1 said:
I'm actually glad you posted a picture of an assassin bug earlier in the thread. I found ONE in my garden this summer, and knew to let it live. But, I don't think one can do very much against the onslaught of grasshoppers and crickets. Ember defends the house from invading crickets (I have a lot of dead crickets with missing legs near the front door ), but there's no stopping them outside.Oooh, you're sick! These guys are death to tomatoes, peppers, etc.Moonbear said:Wow! That's an amazing photo! It makes him look so cute, I want to cuddle him!
turbo-1 said:
It's your fault for taking such a good photo of him! What can I say, he's very photogenic. My photos tend to be rather clinical as opposed to artistic. I took this one because that rascal was huge, and he and others had decimated many of my plants.Moonbear said:
turbo-1 said:
He didn't look so cute after getting stomped. Kinda flat, distorted, and "mushy". I felt better, though.Moonbear said:But it is artistic. He's perched there, with those spots looking like eyes, chomping on what's probably some precious jalapeno part, but posed just like a squirrel nibbling an acorn. He even looks like he's wagging a tail, with that horn on his "butt." Now, if you put his post-mortem photo up, I might not think he was so cute.
Ouabache said:
I was too big to have an Inchworm.Math Is Hard said:
But you can never be too big for Teddy Ruxpin!Math Is Hard said:
Yeah, my parents had about the same reaction as Turbo when I'd want to play with the inchworms and insist they were cute too.Evo said:I was too big to have one.
We should make kids toys for adults.
Evo said:
Moonbear said::!) It's Inchworm, It's Inchworm!
Could we go outdoors and play pickup baseball or softball? I used to love sprinting from base to base, running hard to make a clean catch, etc. I don't see a lot of that kind of play off-season, here. Kids are not getting the exercise that they require, anymore.Moonbear said:That would be a great theme for a gym! I'd LOVE to go work out if I got to ride around on an inchworm or hop along on a hippity hopper (is that what they were called? The big rubber balls with handles to bounce on?), or bounce around on a pogo stick, or race people on bigwheels!