Visitation
Last night, a pretty good-sized frog-strangler swepth through my part of Texas. The rain came down in buckets and lightning was crashing all around. I saw several bolts strike within five miles of where I live.
In the middle of all this, this little fellow decided to alight on the wall outside my apartment and wait out the storm.
I may be mistaken, but I’m pretty sure this is the new MA-2004 assault moth.
September 23rd, 2004 at 11:04 am
For a minute, I thought you’d artistically arranged a couple of wood chips to resemble a bug. Talk about natural defenses.
‘Frog-strangler’? No wonder I couldn’t figure out what you were saying on the phone. Between the poisonous snakes, the deluges and the Olive Garden, how did you survive a night?
September 23rd, 2004 at 8:02 pm
Kaetchen: Firearms. And a weird sense of humor.
Google around for a pic of a black-witch moth… I had one of those chilling out on my front porch (wish I’d gotten a picture of it). If yours is a MA-204, mine was a BA-309 assault bomber.
September 23rd, 2004 at 10:41 pm
Ewww! I thought it was wood chips too! Scary! They sure have some awesome bugs here…hey, Carol Rhodes. is teaching spindle-spinning on Saturday at HCW. Maybe you need to add creating handspun wool to your vast repertoire of talents…
September 24th, 2004 at 9:19 pm
You know, your cable grapher is pretty cool. I’m want to play with it when I get time.
March 27th, 2006 at 10:42 am
[...] Hey, it’s back! For the third time, the ferocious MA-2004 Attack Moth has graced the stucco walls of the breezeway outside my front door. [...]