Winters coming.

[RobertBrown]

Check out this guy. When I saw him I thought I'd found the missing link. I had never seen anything like this before and I've been looking around for over 47 years. I have never seen one again and this was taken on my property. This is one huge caterpillar. I would not touch it as I've been debilitated by caterpillars before, nothing to mess with. This one looks pretty fierce to me.

see below next to a penny for some scale.

Turns out it's not an uncommon moth. It's called a "Hickory horned devil". It's actually the larvae for a "Regal Moth" or the "Royal Walnut Moth". I found it in a wax myrtle a couple of years ago. It's completely harmless.

 

[Bison]

Close! We have leaf hoppers here but they are smaller, much smaller.
We call these Katydids here. Or you could call it "Amblycorypha floridana" if you wanted to. Don't ask me how to pronounce that.
I guess you and I are the only ones to take pictures of things other than lawnmowers.....other than Parkmower, he has posted a few.
I'll bet my mower is uglier than yours

Well,there is a critter pic tread on TBN as well,mebby that's why.


Dunno,lets compare.:tongue:

 

[Bison]

Check out this guy. When I saw him I thought I'd found the missing link. I had never seen anything like this before and I've been looking around for over 47 years. I have never seen one again and this was taken on my property. This is one huge caterpillar. I would not touch it as I've been debilitated by caterpillars before, nothing to mess with. This one looks pretty fierce to me.

see below next to a penny for some scale.

Turns out it's not an uncommon moth. It's called a "Hickory horned devil". It's actually the larvae for a "Regal Moth" or the "Royal Walnut Moth". I found it in a wax myrtle a couple of years ago. It's completely harmless.

That's one ugly mother.....r
I don't know which is more ugly,...the pillar or your avatar,...i hope it ain't you in there? :biggrin:

 

[RobertBrown]

That's one ugly mother.....r
I don't know which is more ugly,...the pillar or your avatar,...i hope it ain't you in there? :biggrin:

Oh come on now I've seen your picture ......besides, I shaved, cut my hair, and put on my Sunday shirt before mama took that picture.
My girlfriend says I look very rugged and handsome :laughing:

 

[RobertBrown]

Well,there is a critter pic tread on TBN as well,mebby that's why.


Dunno,lets compare.:tongue:

Behold the ugliness.

I'd like to call your attention to the "custom" grass chute and muffler mount

and yes, it still runs like a dear....er a sewing machine.
Sounds like a regular new mower...... dragging a bag of steal can across the lawn
Let the judging begin

 

[RobertBrown]

OK....well I guess no one wants to judge or no ones paying attention, doesn't much matter either way.
They are both ugly but your is bigger so there's room for more ugliness:laughing:
Everybody should have 2 trucks, ones pretty and ones ugly.....
I'll bet my ugly truck is uglier than you ugly truck! I went to the woods this weekend and dug my ugly truck out from under the leaves and debris. It has been sitting there for 9 months waiting for hunting season. Well hunting season is almost over and it's a little disappointed but once again it complied. Took a few minutes but it started right up. This is the beginning of a cycle that has been going on for 16 years. Yea this truck has been in the woods for 16 years and never failed to start when I needed it too.:thumbsup:

 

[Bison]

No wonder that truck is ugly,...it is FERD for crying out loud.:wink:
I never seen a pretty ford,even when new they're ugly :tongue:

But it ain't in to bad a shape for its 'age???

My 89 GMC farmtruck is a lot worse,all rusted out,...but t runs great and is still pretty :thumbsup:


I bet i take honors on the ugliest tractor though!

 

[RobertBrown]

No wonder that truck is ugly,...it is FERD for crying out loud.:wink:
I never seen a pretty ford,even when new they're ugly :tongue:

But it ain't in to bad a shape for its 'age???

My 89 GMC farmtruck is a lot worse,all rusted out,...but t runs great and is still pretty :thumbsup:


I bet I take honors on the ugliest tractor though!

Where do you park that truck.....at the bottom of the ocean?
I'm going to concede the ugly tractor award, mines too pretty, got a few scratches, a few dents, but not even close. Whats the cab for, those hot summer days? I heard it doesn't get that cold in Alberta.

 

[Bison]

Where do you park that truck.....at the bottom of the ocean?
I'm going to concede the ugly tractor award, mines too pretty, got a few scratches, a few dents, but not even close. Whats the cab for, those hot summer days? I heard it doesn't get that cold in Alberta.

Well,that's what road salt does,+ i don't think i washed the truck once since i owned it in 96.:frown:

That tractor(my other belarus) was ugly the day i bought it used 23 years ago but it was ...cheap :wink:

The cab?,...just in case it does get cold and i hate dust and wind ,you happy now? :tongue:



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[RobertBrown]

you happy now? :tongue:

Actually, i think it more like envious.:laughing: