Uknown crawley and BLOB?

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 29, 2006 4:34 pm

Any help would be really appreaciated, especially since these blobs are really odd! Is this a spore of some sort?

And what catepiller is this? A good or evil sort?

Thanks! The season has begun for outside learning!!!!!!!!!!

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Mar 29, 2006 5:18 pm

Cute Wooly Bear caterpillar!

I do not know what the blob is though

Alexa

http://www.coldspringschool.org/Mill/wooly.html

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 29, 2006 6:14 pm

So is he a friendly, or foe in the garden? Do you know? He sure was on a mission today, covered the back yard in no time heading for the back door!

Thanks so much Alexa!

Now to see if anyone can identify that foreign blob!

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » Mar 29, 2006 8:46 pm

I was trying to find something on the net to help you identify your caterpillar and I found a site with amazing picture of insects. I want to share you the link even if it's in french
http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic. ... e&start=30

I will look for your caterpillar. I've already see something like that here.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 29, 2006 8:52 pm

Wow! Great pics, but sadly, it makes no sense to me! I didn't make it far in french. Had that and spanish in 9th grade together. Spanish won out ;( Wish now it hadn't, as this would have been much more useful! Thanks for sharing it though!

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » Mar 29, 2006 11:26 pm

The blob looks to be a fungi that grows on dead wood. If it's 3 times a large tomorrow, RUUUUN!

Gruntfuttock · Post by **Gruntfuttock** » Mar 30, 2006 7:06 am

Looks like someone's dropped some cavity foam there. If it's not that then give it a prod. Is it attached? Does it feel like fungus?

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 30, 2006 7:56 am

Gruntfuttock, You are right!

I asked dh if he saw and he just went out! It's foam insulation (the spray in type) that he used last fall under the siding.

Hmmmmmm....don't men ever clean up this stuff when they use it?

I can't believe I never noticed it all winter as it is pretty bright colored!

Garden_of_Mu · Post by **Garden_of_Mu** » Mar 31, 2006 10:20 pm

I've seen those 'woolley worms' my whole life in the midwest - and even had one here in the drive the other day - and have never known what they are. I always see them crossing the road from one field to another. Never saw one in a garden before.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 31, 2006 10:31 pm

That site she sent said they ate decaying grasses and such. Good for them

I've only seen them traveling along the grass too, as this was doing. HEading straight up the hill to the back door!

Have a feeling he was probably someones lunch though, as he really stuck out from several feet away! I thought he was turd at first and that's what attracted me to him! LOL I was on winter snow covered missed messes from the twins!

wild4flowers · Post by **wild4flowers** » Apr 02, 2006 11:13 pm

Birds don't seem to like the wooly bears for lunch since they are too bristly and fuzzy. And probably the same for small rodents. Some of the catapillars have an irritating substance on their wool, so touching them gives you a dermatitis on your skin.

And I have seen one already this year that survived the winter and needs to find a spot to cocoon.
CHAR

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Apr 03, 2006 4:54 pm

The Woolly Bear you have will turn into the "Isabella Tiger Moth. These little caterpillars are said to be able to forcast the weather. According to legend the brown/orange band around their middle will get wider if the winter is going to be mild. They feed on dadelions, asters, birches, clovers weeds and other vegetation. They search for overwintering sites under bark or inside vacaties of rocks or logs. Thats why you see them crossing roads and sidewalks in the fall.

Ginger

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Apr 03, 2006 8:57 pm

Yeah, I did read that, about the length of the band. Kind of hard to decide then, if they are forecasters or 'what' this time of year?

But this guy was certainly cruising!

Char, I remember reading that too! Hm...so nobody eats them, it's amazing you don't see more of them huh? He's the only one I've seen in a few years I am sure.