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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,878
    edited May 5
    No, but he did impede the start time of my baby backs …. er, uh … smoked carrots a little while I finagled the cover off with him on it!

    He sat out in the sun there for a couple hours and either flew away, or … got eaten while I wasn’t looking.

    Brian

    One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    edited May 5
    It is a moth. Note the feathered antennae.
    My knee-jerk ID was cecropia moth, but I don't think that is what it is.

    EDIT: It is gorgeous.
    my current guess:
    https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/MISC/MOTHS/polyphemus_moth.htm
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    Cecropia moths are very colorful, very attractive, and very large.
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    ... and just to insure that eveyone has a peaceful, restful night's sleep with sweet dreams, the larval (caterpillar) stage of the cecropia.
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    B)
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,005
    It looks like the desert camo military version of a butterfly, yes.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,005
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ... and just to insure that eveyone has a peaceful, restful night's sleep with sweet dreams, the larval (caterpillar) stage of the cecropia.
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    B)

    Yoiks, Doc, those look like those things that decimate tomato plants.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,005
    Side note: Anyone else noticing that smaller images are being upscaled on the page? When I quote image posts, I try to resize quoted images down to 300-400px to reduce footprint, but they're being upscaled to fill post width, it seems.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,424
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Cecropia moths are very colorful, very attractive, and very large.
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    That is quite possibly the moth I had on my garage siding once upon a time. As you said the feathered antennae give them away.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    edited May 5
    msg wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    ... and just to insure that eveyone has a peaceful, restful night's sleep with sweet dreams, the larval (caterpillar) stage of the cecropia.
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    B)

    Yoiks, Doc, those look like those things that decimate tomato plants.

    They do indeed resemble the tomato hornworm... but note, they're... umm, how to put this? Not horn-y.
    B)
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    The little spike-y thing on the aft end of the hornworm caterpillar (and the row of spots/spiracles on the side) are diagnostic. Plus, munchin' on 'mater plants, of course. :#
    Cecropia moths are nice. :)


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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,715
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    It is a moth. Note the feathered antennae.
    My knee-jerk ID was cecropia moth, but I don't think that is what it is.

    EDIT: It is gorgeous.
    my current guess:
    https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/MISC/MOTHS/polyphemus_moth.htm
    34pln2hm25td.jpg

    We knew you'd get there eventually.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    edited May 5
    sorry, @OleBoot -- I somehow missed the ID post! I am most chagrined. :#
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,582
    Some interesting wall clouds here today. Pics don't do them justice.

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    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
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    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
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    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,224
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,493
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Cecropia moths are very colorful, very attractive, and very large.
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    ... and just to insure that eveyone has a peaceful, restful night's sleep with sweet dreams, the larval (caterpillar) stage of the cecropia.
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    B)

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    "Conservative Libertarians love the country, progressive leftists love the government." - Andrew Wilkow


    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,715
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    sorry, @OleBoot -- I somehow missed the ID post! I am most chagrined. :#

    Just having a little fun with you. Or in English, a little banter.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    Great Monty Python sketch on banter. Not readily available "in the public domain", though, unfortunately.

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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,715
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,755
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Great Monty Python sketch on banter. Not readily available "in the public domain", though, unfortunately.

    Would you like to buy an argument?
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,005
    He won't haggewl!
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,224
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    saw this today @ hifihaven

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,015
    THAT'S freakin' funny...

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    FWIW -- my wife has much more faith in brakes than do I. Perhaps that's because she didn't spend her formative years driving a 1974 Ford Bronco -- a rather heavy little vehicle with not particularly large drum brakes all the way around. ;)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
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    Just a little while ago tonight (06May24)
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,878
    Today's creature encounter, not quite as unusual as yesterday's, though ...

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    Brian

    One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,878
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
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    I gave you an "LOL" because I thought it was funny that no one reacted to that. 😂

    Brian

    One-owner Polk Audio RTA 15TL speakers refreshed w/ Sonicap, Vishay/Mills and Cardas components by "pitdogg2," "xschop" billet tweeter plates and BH5 | Stereo REL Acoustics T/5x subwoofers w/ Bassline Blue cables | Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated tube amp | Technics SL-1210G turntable w/ Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 MM cart | Sony CDP-508ESD CD player (as a transport) | LampizatOr Baltic 4 tube DAC | Nordost & DH Labs cables/interconnects | APC H15 Power Conditioner | GIK Acoustics room treatments | Degritter RCM
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,715
    AI still has a ways to go.


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,776
    OleBoot wrote: »
    AI still has a ways to go.


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    The seldom seen Puch U-5 powerplant.
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