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Not yet..still gathering stuff
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Not yet..still gathering stuff
How many Flat Rate Boxes? Enough for a real container?
There's compression curl in them there clouds
... and that's a commercial Echo weedeater for scale. Huge tears.
Is it a flowering pear?
Those were both Live Oaks
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I made a kayak shelf!
Couldn't figure out why my back was burning the other day... took a duce after lunch and found this guy on my shirt. Still have an outline of it on my lower back.
What is it?
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Electric caterpillar. That's what we called them in Panama, some can be really nasty.
Glad I've never tangled with one of them! Chuck
Yowzers - them ain't fun!
Guessin about 5 foot.....
He got a little miffed when I tried to hurry him along.
He got a little miffed when I tried to hurry him along.
i'm still at a loss as to what that is
What kind of snake is it? Chuck
Black racer is my first guess, being it looks thin and has a small head. If that is so, anything over 4 feet is a good size. Otherwise black rat snake is my fall back as the jaw and underside match well. They grow to over 8 feet.
It is a larval form (caterpillar) of the Southern flannel moth (Megalpyge opercularis), which is truly an ADORABLE moth! Did Lil Mikey really just call a moth adorable? It is so fuzzy and cute that you just want to reach out and pet the adult. The adult (moth) is fine to touch and pet - but the caterpillar is another matter altogether! It looks all nice and furry and adorable also, but that cute fur hides some serious stinging spines. It is one of the more venomous species in the US. You are not going to die from a sting, but you might wish you would - some intense burning pain and if it gets you on a sensitive patch of skin - wowzers!
A quick application of scotch tape will remove some of the stinging hairs, helping to lesson the impact. Jim
UKy Venomous Caterpillars in the US
The one that used to get me in Panama looked a lot like the one they call a Hag Moth caterpillar on that web site. We learned real fast to watch for those things when we went into the bush.
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