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What are these weird things that I found under the dirt in my yard?

Posted on 05/29/2008 9:31:26 PM PDT by wideminded



TOPICS: Agriculture; Gardening; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigdingleberries; callingartbell
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To: Gummi Bear; wideminded

I think you’re right Gummi Bear, it’s most likely a Tomato Hornworm. It does look just like the pictures on the site you linked, even if wideminded’s are just “little guys” in comparison to the specimen they are showing. It even has the smooth part, and then the twisted “cone” part at the end. They even mentioned that the woman sending the pictures in found them IN the ground - and the info. says they emerge from the ground as moths, lay their eggs, and do it all over again! LOL

Wideminded, do you have a garden in the area you were digging?

And, check out the picture of the caterpillar it comes from - ever seen these strange looking guys out in your yard? They are kinda spooky looking, IMHO! O.o


41 posted on 05/30/2008 12:23:52 AM PDT by LibertyRocks (The LibertyRocks Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & http://www.LibertyRocks.us)
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To: wideminded

they might be cicada pupae. Take them to the County Agent, and he/they will identify them for you.


42 posted on 05/30/2008 12:45:54 AM PDT by redhead (I used to be an anarchist, but I quit--too many rules.)
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To: wideminded

Democrats


43 posted on 05/30/2008 2:41:44 AM PDT by leadhead (Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think,)
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To: wideminded

44 posted on 05/30/2008 3:56:42 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
On a more serious note, I recently heard of a movie, "Mars Needs Women."

Is this true?

Does Mars need women?

If so, why?
45 posted on 05/30/2008 5:06:43 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: La Enchiladita
I used to find greasy fat white things in my garden dirt,

Come on, the guy has a brain tumor.. lay off!

46 posted on 05/30/2008 5:18:53 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: La Enchiladita; wideminded; Gabz

While the pupae look like pod people wannabes and the hornworms themselves are dis-gus-ting, they hatch into hummingbird moths. Too bad we can’t have the moths without the other stages! The moths are quite interesting to watch—they fly just like a hummingbird and are about half the size of a hummingbird but larger than a bumblebee. They usually come out early and late, and sometimes on cloudy days. If you see a hornworm with little rice looking grains all over it, don’t squish it. Get it off your tomatoes, certainly, but put it in the woods or something. The rice thingys are parasitic wasps that use the caterpillers for a buffet.


47 posted on 05/30/2008 5:39:47 AM PDT by gardengirl
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To: wideminded
How big are they? Does your area have cicadas? Depending on the species, if they are cicadas, you could have a very long wait to find out what they are: Some cicadas stay as pupaes for 17 years!

Mark

48 posted on 05/30/2008 5:54:21 AM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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To: wideminded

I saw these in a movie one time. I think it was one of the Star Trek series. One character held it up and it burrowed into the brain of the other character via his ear canal. EMERGENCY! Do not get it near your head! (^;


50 posted on 05/30/2008 6:51:01 AM PDT by Clay Moore ("My daddy says I'm this close to living in the yard." Ralph Wiggum)
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To: wideminded

Actually I think these turn into June beetles.


51 posted on 05/30/2008 6:53:38 AM PDT by Clay Moore ("My daddy says I'm this close to living in the yard." Ralph Wiggum)
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To: robomatik

In the very early 80’s we had an exceptionaly high Gypsy Moth invasion here in MA.
The trees and sidewalks and EVERYTHING were covered in them.
It was VERY nasty!
Out in the woods at night it would sound like it was pouring raining from the sound of millions of the little buggers munching all the leaves away.
We spent the whole Summer trying to find unique ways of killing them. My two favorites were putting a bunch of them in the engine cylinder of the lawnmower then starting the motor and the old filling a jar with the catipillars and blowing them up with firecrackers trick.
Blowtorching their nests with Hairspray napalm was always a blast!
If you tapped them the right way with your sneaker they also made nice popping noises.
I hate those things.


52 posted on 05/30/2008 7:47:36 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: wideminded; Slings and Arrows
Those look just like the little moth cocoons grown in “silence of the lambs”.

8-]

53 posted on 05/30/2008 9:13:56 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: wideminded

Moth pupae.


54 posted on 05/30/2008 9:50:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (Do you or anyone you know suffer from Bunny on the Head?)
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55 posted on 05/30/2008 10:01:11 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: wideminded

Cicadas?


56 posted on 05/30/2008 10:02:41 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Quid pro quo, Clarice.


57 posted on 05/30/2008 10:13:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Code Pink should guard against creating stereotypes in the Mincing Community." --Titan Magroyne)
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To: wideminded

That’s freeze dried Jimmy Hoffa and his bodyguard.


59 posted on 05/31/2008 12:22:21 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Grizzled Bear

POD PEOPLE!
RUN! HIDE!


60 posted on 05/31/2008 12:27:29 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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