Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Neck of the Woods CHAT Summer 2013, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
SOOO--Paul----
You are into insects also? Goes with all kinds of other interests you have--I am just finding out..

I have a huge, Brandy sniffer glass. It is full of all kinds of things--among them a lot of the
Cicada cases they shed--or crawl out of. Dead Butterflies, huge beetles, dead borer bees, moths, etc.
I have one huge, amazing Moth! Also from the Growers place...This is about 1989.
This collection started back when i was working for the Grower, and one day I came across a shed snake skin.
That still sits in the bottom of this brandy sniffer.

Te typical orange/yellow butterflies, as well as Black Swallow butterflies often fly around under my patio roof.
Then they drop down below--when they are dying. If i can beat the ants to it--I can pick up an intact butterfly.
I have lots of them....Pics are from 2006.

The last 2 pictures are of a humongous, beautiful Moth I found on the pavement by the front door to the HD.
Took it home and tried to keep it alive in a wicker basket--but, after a few days, it had died and broken off a
lot of the wing-tips in it's thrashing around. It had real fur on it! These pics are from 2010.

Next time you are here--do you want to see it all? G.