RE: back to Bonnie's larva

Was the caterpillar a lime green with colorful protuberances, per chance?
Maybe it had already eaten all it would and I should have done what you did,
Jesse.  Hmmm.... will have to keep my eyes open for that great caterpillar.

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Jesse Bell
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:48 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] back to Bonnies larva

Last year, we found one of those gigantic caterpillers on the ground
under our river birch. We put it in an aquarium with a wire mesh lid so
we could watch it change (which it did before winter) It was a female
brown moth....very, very big (can't remember the name of it) but it's as
big as a lunar moth. She laid eggs all over my laundry room (one of the
kids left the lid off) so I scraped them off and put them on a birch
leaf and left them outside for the winter. This year, we seem to have a
lot of them.



Bonnie & Bill Morgan <wmorgan972@ameritech.net> wrote:
No. I wish I did. The last I saw it, it was making its way through the
grass toward another tree. Maybe I'll be able to see the chrysalis when the
leaves fall. I can tell you that was one LARGE and very FAT caterpillar! I
might have tried a capture but I didn't think I could mimic what it needed
to put it into captivity anyway.

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH -zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Marge Talt
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:06 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] back to Bonnies larva

> From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan 
> It was coming down out of one of our old elm trees. I'm assuming
it had
> grown so large on that trees leaves (limbed up too high for me to
see
> damage.)
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I wonder if it is ready to make a cocoon for the winter? Do you know
where it is now?

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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