Horrible things that live in my yard, Part 58

[phosfate]

1. Caterpillars that look like tiny steel-belt radial tires. Lots of them.

2. Large but flightless baby robin. If robins ever stage Of Mice and Men, this one will play Lenny. Its mother is convinced that I mean it harm, and keeps faking injury in order to distract me from her tasty, tasty child. She's like Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black: "Eat me! EAT ME!" I have explained repeatedly that I don't want to eat her, or her lummoxy offspring. When I go inside, she switches her attention to the blue jay, who only wants to sit on a bit of fence and probably wonders what exactly he did to offend.

3. Rabbits. They are not in fact horrible, but they are everywhere.

Comments

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I...have no way of telling. Do you slice them open and see whether it's a butterfly or moth inside? 'Cause that seems kind of harsh.

[ginnytonnick.livejournal.com]

ew.

No, but you could look at pictures of catapillers to figure out what it is. Looked up mine, and it's a Spinx moth, and it's probably here to eat my tomato plants. :(

How many times do I have to replant those, before I'm allowed to eat them in peace?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Hm. Mom was good at tomatos, but I got nothing. Except that if you put a finger on a tomato worm's little horn, it's like touching a joy buzzer.