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Just a few pics of springtime...

My mini bog
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A few new flowers
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A couple of pitchers getting ready to pop
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S. Tarnok flowers
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D. adelae flowering... a first
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And finally a caterpillar that stung the crap out of me
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nice! Yay!! I get to see that when I get to go back to palm bay what is that sarra with all the flowwers?
 
GASP! you have an IO caterpillar! raise it or send it my way! lol.
I've always wanted to see an IO caterpillar/moth... want to raise it? I can tell you how... hopefully it's a male... and by the looks of the caterpillar it's going to pupate soon...
oh yeah... great plants too!
 
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Quote[/b] (TheAlphaWolf @ Mar. 26 2005,8:36)]GASP! you have an IO caterpillar! raise it or send it my way! lol.
I've always wanted to see an IO caterpillar/moth... want to raise it? I can tell you how... hopefully it's a male... and by the looks of the caterpillar it's going to pupate soon...
oh yeah... great plants too!
As much as I felt like it I didn't kill it. Turns out there are at least 4 of them on the plant.
 
Yes IO's are very cool! I've never seen one up around NY, but dang those are the coolest, along with the saddlebacks that feed on Pawpaws. Pussmoths are very neat too.
 
if you find eggs, you must send me some
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saddlebacks and pussmoths? naw... Lunas, cecropias, (trying to think of the name....) regal moth? are cooler.
did you mean the caterpillar or the moth?
and NOOOOOOOOOO! don't kill it/them!!!
 
Ok first of all...NICE plants!!Second,what on earth is an IO catterpillar??From the looks of it on the pic,it's pretty cool lookin
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And I had NO idea that catterpillars can sting!
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*Niki*(Trapper7)
 
Kudos on your lovely plants. I'm diggin' the adelae.
 
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Diggin' the garden, Flam! Big time!

Oh, I hatched a cecropia moth pupae in my dorm room back in college. We nicknamed the six inch wing span result Mothra!
 
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Cecropias are very neat, I've had a few of the mammoth caterpillars before, fed them all the lilac leaves they could eat, I must say they were very healthy moths
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Quote[/b] (altrade212 @ Mar. 26 2005,4:55)]what kinda camera did you use?
I fairly recently bought a Nikon D70... not cheap but nice.
 
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I raised some (cecropias) from eggs but while they were in their sixth instar they got the "black death" as I call it (also most of my lunas and polyphemus) and only one survived to pupate... then it died :-/ (although 6 polyphemus did eclose
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