Mother of all Green weenies!

[DaveS]

WOW! I had to share this. I found these two hanging out in the back yard yesterday. BLUGH! What an ugly face!

Upon finally calming down. Hey I was a little freaked out! these things are over 5 inches long! they are Hickory Horned Devils, or "Royal Walnut Moth" catapillars! Never saw 'em before.

And luckily I saw them when I did, because they were roughly face high when I'm mowing under that tree. I' of shat the seat of my tractor!

 

[albatross]

Pretty cool Dave.

 

[ryguyfi]

I was looking for a pattern that flipnfly ties to match your massive green weenie. I came across this tying video instead. Might be the best tying video EVER!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySd3EVsjYDk


Is that a wedding ring?

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Holy crap!

 

[SBecker]

Should of ate it.

 

[nimrod]

They'll destroy a tomoato plant on short order as I found in in years past. Now I look for them routinely and stop them inhumanely. There's a type of wasp that will lay eggs on them that will stop them inhumanely as well.

 

[Kabutt]

ryguyfi wrote:
Might be the best tying video EVER!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySd3EVsjYDk

Hahahaha awesome!!

 

[beadhead2]

Here you go
http://forums.flytyer.com/media/kunena/attachments/2323/DSC_0275.JPG

 

[ponner1us]

I found 8 eight of these big bast@rds on my tomato plants in 2 days, from 3-5 inches long, nasty things. About 5 of them had little ricelike protrusions on them-wasp larvae, you should see that! And they're strong, have to really pull hard to get them off of the plants.

 

[flipnfly]

the pattern he speaks of is called the wuzzy worm it uses black

thread a charteuse tentacle from a fuzzy wuzzy duster and

brown hen hackle wooly bugger grade tie and glue the body

down as you would chinelle there will be 2 little strings tack the

end down with knot sense then make 3 or 4 wraps of hackle trim

the tops off using the bottom portions for legs and make a black

thread head


ohh yea something like a size 8 hook 2 xl should be sufficient it was originally a bass pattern and was in i think it was fly tyer or fly fisherman but cant seem to find it