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I was excited to stop back by the meadow. Again, it was alive with activity. I found this cute caterpillar chomping on these tiny flowers and some other critters, but was soon run off by security. Apparently, the area is under some power lines close to a big power plant, and photographers are not allowed. I can understand the heightened security--they don't want people staking out their plant for sabotage--but I'm greatly disappointed. This is my favorite spot to shoot during the months of September and October, so I don't know what I'll be able to show you now. :-(
I made a desperate call to my friend, Joey, to see if her sons and husband would like to have them as fish bait, but since they were black, they didn't think the fish could see them. Drats! Undeterred, I grabbed some tongs and a Ziploc bag and pulled off about 50-75 plump critters. Some fell to the ground, which is when I noticed some movement. There was a toad eyeing one of the fallen. I sat down to watch him, but when I noticed the irritating piece of grass in the middle of my shot and tried to move it, I spooked the toad and he hopped off. I wasn't going to let the caterpillar crawl back to devour more of my bush, so I put him in the bag and continued my project. I could have zipped the bag and tossed it in the trash, but that's kind of cruel, don't you think? So I drove down to the river and emptied them into the water. I saw a lot of tail action, so I hope their demise was painless. Well, at least the fish were fed and my azalea was saved (I hope).
Dog-gone-it!!! I had noticed my favorite azalea bush was stripped yesterday, but thought that the sparrows had been using it too much as a perch. But it turns out that it had been stripped by the dreaded Red Headed Azalea Caterpillars (Datana Major).
. . . an invasion of leaf eating critters. The eggs had been laid many months before and were unseen until now, when the beasts emerged and began eatting their way to fatness,
I finally made it to my field of weeds and look what I found! I really don't like sharing more than one picture a day simply because it's too cumbersome and I don't have time. But I really wanted you to see how something so beautiful can be overlooked, look at the collage in my blog: http://leroyphotography.blogspot.com/2011/04/day-91-040111.html. You see a field from a distance and it simply looks like grass and weeds, but as you look a little closer, you see the weeds are made up of tiny little flowers with colors varying from white to peach to pale pastel pink and then bright pink. God's little beauties only seen by the dragonflies and caterpillars.
I have an interloper in the garden, but just didn't have the heart to smush it. The flowers will soon be gone and he's just eating to prepare for his cocoon sleep. My only hope is that one of the cardinals will find him and carry him away to its nest.
"The early bird gets the worm" ... or in this case, the caterpillar.
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I was excited to stop back by the meadow. Again, it was alive with activity. I found this cute caterpillar chomping on these tiny flowers and some other critters, but was soon run off by security. Apparently, the area is under some power lines close to a big power plant, and photographers are not allowed. I can understand the heightened security--they don't want people staking out their plant for sabotage--but I'm greatly disappointed. This is my favorite spot to shoot during the months of September and October, so I don't know what I'll be able to show you now. :-(
I was excited to stop back by the meadow. Again, it was alive with activity. I found this cute caterpillar chomping on these tiny flowers and some other critters, but was soon run off by security. Apparently, the area is under some power lines close to a big power plant, and photographers are not allowed. I can understand the heightened security--they don't want people staking out their plant for sabotage--but I'm greatly disappointed. This is my favorite spot to shoot during the months of September and October, so I don't know what I'll be able to show you now. :-(
I was excited to stop back by the meadow. Again, it was alive with activity. I found this cute caterpillar chomping on these tiny flowers and some other critters, but was soon run off by security. Apparently, the area is under some power lines close to a big power plant, and photographers are not allowed. I can understand the heightened security--they don't want people staking out their plant for sabotage--but I'm greatly disappointed. This is my favorite spot to shoot during the months of September and October, so I don't know what I'll be able to show you now. :-(
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