Musk ox invasion keeps Nome wildlife managers busy

Anchorage Daily News ^ | comJuly 2, 2014 | SEAN DOOGAN

[skeptoid]

Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.

Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.

[Tax-chick]

He must not like big psychedelic colored moths.. ;-)

What's wrong with him? Most dogs are crazy about those!

[ColdOne]

LOL.... he sniffed it, thought about it for a second, almost ate it then sniffed it again left it alone and then walked to the front door.

It is a nice pic. Will post soon.

[Tax-chick]

Good choice. It might have made him sick.

[ColdOne]

http://s754.photobucket.com/user/bluebird104/media/Mothbuckandmonkonwheel069_zps6fd7f423.jpg.html?state=replace

[Tax-chick]

Callosamia promethea, the Promethea Silkmoth.

[Darksheare]

Hyalophora cecropia.
A saturnid moth.

[Tax-chick]

Yeah, you’re right.

[Darksheare]

Male moth too.
I’ve never seen one personally.
But I have seen several Luna moths.

[NoCmpromiz]

What he said...

This is the Promethea Silkmoth, also a saturniid..

[NoCmpromiz]

Had them all the time back in Ohio in my youth..

Their caterpillars are, um, interesting also... Looks like something from a bad acid trip. ;-)

[Darksheare]

And what pops to mind?
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lmZRRqF6wA

[Darksheare]

And that is what pops to mind when I read nnb’s song of the spiderbots.

[Fast Moving Angel]

:-)

IIRC, don't you also like Kahlua and rum in your adult beverages?

[Darksheare]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3176466/posts?page=1
Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to have children.

[ThomasThomas]

Let be the first say. We musk do something! Well I have not read the thread yet so this is the first I saw it. Well I saw it whe I typed it. Do we type or do they call it keyboarding now.

[Darksheare]

Key broading, typing from arms length with one hand while performing another task with the other.
Keybaffled, somebody changed the keyboard mapping...again.

[Tax-chick]

[NicknamedBob]

"And that is what pops to mind when I read nnb’s song of the spiderbots."

Song of the Spider Robot

I have some work to do up here. You folks who live down there,
Would not enjoy the job conditions, first of all, no air!
I don’t seem to mind it though, at least I will not rust,
The lack of food would be a little problem too, I trust?

I’ve got my Momma Moonworm. She suckles me at night,
And solar cells can feed me ‘til the sun is out of sight.
It is the cold I run from, and you would too, you know,
My padding made of CO2 won’t work when it is snow!

I have my brother robots, to help me with the work,
They simply do not know the concept you call "shirk."
And they’ll be there to lend a "hand," if I perchance to fall,
And they’ll relay the message when our "Mother" starts to call.

It is a good life, by and large, we’ve got the stuff we need.
We are your colony on the Moon. We are your working "seed."
We’ll set the catapult up right, and send the things we make,
Jump up and join us, won’t you please? You’re needed for Heaven’s Sake!

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . . August 14, 2005

[Monkey Face]

...IIRC, don't you also like Kahlua and rum in your adult beverages?

Yes. Yes I do.

;o]

[Monkey Face]

Morning. The kittehs look ready for mischief...They are gathering in hordes. They mean business!