I'm Chia Wald and this is my blog. Here is where I share my thoughts and my art. Sometimes it is good, sometimes it isn't. That's life... and that's me. 
I find all kinds of critters at my doorstep in the mornings. Some are a little more intact and active than others. This fellow was waiting for me this morning, completely intact and on the go.
He is some type of hornworm, and he is huge! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these before and it creeped me out for the first minute or so. Even Abbey wasn’t sure what to make of it.
Speaking of Abbey…
Shannon, I want you to show this picture of Abbey to Yoda every day. That way, when you come to visit, he will already think she is a big wild cat that he doesn’t want to be beating up on. (Yoda has a reputation as a bully. A BIG bully with about 42 extra claws! Maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but he really is a huge cat and he does have several extra claws. His paws are like baseball mitts.)
And finally, for my Clementine fans:
They are turning yellow now. Can Christmas be far behind?
Stumble it!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Jolene // Nov 14, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Clementines and a huge humming bird too! The ones here are tiny… birds that is. Tell us more about the critter when you find out more. What did you do with it? When you were a kid, you’d put it in a jar, with holes in the lid….
It reminds me of the big horned like tomatoe worms we use to have in Nebr… I killed them, before i realized they were likely some exotic butterfly…..
2 Judy B. // Nov 16, 2009 at 11:51 am
I thought that work looked exactly like the tomato worms I saw on my plants in Virginia! Big, ugly, things!! If you stepped on them, you had a big mess! If you didn’t, they ate your tomato plant to the stem!
This summer I have battled scorpions! First time in 8 years that I have ever even seen one here!!! Talk about paranoid!! I am! Think I could take one of these green things over a scorpion!!!
3 chia // Nov 16, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Judy, We have been here 12 years and by far, this has been the worst year for scorpions. Not only have I seen more of them, but they have been HUGE! I’m starting to understand the old joke about an “Arizona Fly Swatter” (Baseball Bat). The horn worm may be the same as the tomato worms you and Jolene are remembering. If not the same, then a close relative. They make a large moth. Some of them make a hummingbird sized moth! And yes.. I’d much rather see the hornworm than the scorpions!
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