Create a New Forum Owner Login Contribute & Create Your Member account VoyUser Login (see contribute) VoyForums Directory/Categories No-ads: Completely remove ads from your forum VoyForums Homepage VoyForums News Help Desk VoyForums Exchange FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Search VoyForums

Tue, Oct 14 2008, 1:47:12

[ VoyUser Login optional ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3, 4 ]

Subject: CATALPA HORNWORMS Author: D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:30:36 07/09/07 Mon I have plenty of catalpa trees near my peafowl pens. The female catalpa sphinx moth lays a cluster of white eggs on a catalpa leaf. The newly hatched hornworms are tiny and easily carried off by wasps. They also are eaten by birds. So the little hornworms eat and grow as fast as they can. Soon they are big enough for fishermen to use them for bait. A big population of them will strip the trees and then starve. I try to help them with their overpopulation by feeding some of them to my peafowls. A peahen enjoys a fat hornworm as much as a person enjoys a hot dog. Somehow I suspect that the protein content of the hornworm is better than the weiner. After all hornworms are NOT made in factories and do NOT contain fillers. My peahens will snatch a hornworm from my hand so roughly that a finger usually gets pinched. Fortunately my fingers are old and very tough. The surviving hornworms reach full size and march down the tree trunk to go underground to molt their skins and become hard shelled pupae. When mature the pupa splits and the moth emerges to begin the cycle again. I love to see this and I firmly believe that this is the work of a Creator and NOT evolution.7 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> Subject: Re: CATALPA HORNWORMS Author: Maxie [Edit] Date Posted: 23:52:07 07/11/07 Wed >I firmly believe that this is the work of a >Creator and >NOT evolution.7 I'm with you there DCT. I'm not religious in the 'going to Church' sense, but there's too much perfection of creatures and natural cycles to be made by coincidence or just luck, so I'm a creationist too. Any chance you can ship some hornworms to the UK? ;o))

[> [> Subject: Re: CATALPA HORNWORMS Author: D C T --friendly poultry orthopedist [Edit] Date Posted: 06:38:31 07/12/07 Thu > >Any chance you can ship some hornworms to the UK? ;o)) --- I sincerely doubt that it would be legal. But even if it was OK to send them getting them there alive would be a BIG problem. Do you have catalpa trees? These trees have very large heart shaped leaves and the flowers look like pop corn and the seed pods are long and slim