Re: [CH] Miss Dewi's pepper hornworm
OverFedLongHairedLeapingGnome (raelsixfour@cableone.net)
Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:29:27 -0600
At 9:05 PM -0500 10/2/01, Love2Troll wrote:
>
>I couldn't access the CH Archives in the Sept 200 timeframe either,
>so don't know what Byron came up with. I posed the ID question on a
>couple of lep sites and the result was a Lime Hawk-moth larva. I
>confirmed it at the following site:
> http://www.schmetterling-raupe.de/tiliae.htm Even said that it eats birch
actually, that's more correctly identified as a Lime-Mescal Chilehead
Hawk Moth, aka: Drunkenmo'fo'tequilabitchus Wormyous. A vicious pest
indeed as it loves to munch on chile plants as well as get into one's
tequila stash and cause all sorts of trouble. I spent many a year in
contact with such a critter as it would not leave my drunken redneck
arse alone, constantly haunting me, tempting me, sneaking little sips
of my mescal (which I knew was happening as there were little wormy
lip prints on my shot glass) and burrowing into my chiles only to eat
out all the seeds and membrane, thus dropping the heat of my chiles.
He called himself Senor Jesus - blasphemous vile little maggot - and
quite quick on his wormy little non-legs as I'd no sooner leave one
bar and enter the next to spy him lying quite nonchalantly near the
booze, often smoking a big stogie like that damned worm in the Alice
myth. Relentless in his making my existance miserable. I eventually
had to eat him.
Kill them all....or stir fry them with some shredded cabbage,
mushroom, carrot and mango chutney...
mmmmmm.
--
Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael64
Monk of the TCS
Order of Enlightened Twister