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Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet Entomology
"Hickory Horned Devil
Citheronia regalis (Fabricius)
This caterpillar is the larva of the Royal Walnut Moth, also known as the Regal Moth. The larva is not one for a timid person to suddenly discover. It has a scary, frightful appearance resembling a small dragon with up to five pairs of long, curving hornlike structures over the back of its thorax with the rest of the body covered with shorter spikes. The body color ranges from deep blue-green to tan with orange spikes tipped with black. Shorter spikes are black. Though very ferocious appearing, it is quite harmless to handle. They are enormous in size, being five to six inches long and nearly 3/4-inch in diameter. They feed for a period of 37 to 42 days on the leaves of hickory, walnut, butternut, pecan, ash, lilac, persimmon, sycamore, sumac and sweet gum. Larvae mature in late summer, wandering around searching for a place to burrow underground to pupate. Overwintering occurs in the pupal stage.
The moth has a wingspan of five to six inches and is seen in midsummer. It has a long body covered with orange yellow hair. The forewings are gray with orange veins and yellow spots. The hindwings are primarily orange with scattered yellow patches. "
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More... Amazing to see these Devils out, with a good amount of 'eggs' ready to hatch out.. New Forest Heath.
The Fish Stix in "Tender Loins" - The Plush Room at the York Hotel, San Francisco, CA - March 6, 1994
At some places the bed of the dry lake is a sandy salty flat. But at other places the repeated (rare) arrival of a little rain followed by immediate evaporation results in a surface that looks like it was once a muddy field churned up by giant horse. The dried clods are covered in salt crystals which will dissolve in the next rain and re-crystallize
Devils Tower National Monument, a geologic wonder steeped in Indian legend, is a modern day national park, climbers' challenge, and is remembered as the movie location for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." The Tower is a solitary stump-shaped granite formation that looms 1,267 above the Belle Fourche River valley, like a skyscraper in the country. The 865-foot sheer rock faces of the Tower are the preiminent challenge in the Black Hills for mountain climbers.
Some interesting history For more info and a pleasure to visit
Devil’s Speedway
Salt Flats - West Side Road
Death Valley National Park
California
View it extra large here
Devils Tower is located in the northeast corner of Wyoming approximately 70 miles northeast of Gillette off Interstate 90.
This was one of the few places that I have taken a photo from the highway leading to it, instead of going into the park itself. Could not see how I,d get a better photo than this. Did I make a mistake by not going into the park or was it better to shoot a photo and move on ?
Liked this version of the why......... by the Native Americans.
Another version tells that two Sioux boys wandered far from their village when Mato the bear, a huge creature that had claws the size of teepee poles, spotted them, and wanted to eat them for breakfast. He was almost upon them when the boys prayed to Wakan Tanka the Creator to help them. They rose up on a huge rock, while Mato tried to get up from every side, leaving huge scratch marks as he did. Finally, he sauntered off, disappointed and discouraged. The bear came to rest east of the Black Hills at what is now Bear Butte. Wanblee, the eagle, helped the boys off the rock and back to their village. A painting depicting this legend by artist Herbert A. Collins hangs over the fireplace in the visitor's center at Devils Tower.
A devil holding the England coat of arms - for some reason part of the decoration of a shop in Faversham, Kent
I've finally processed the rest of the Devil's Lake monochrome images I photographed back in April. I've uploaded several here, and the rest are in this set.
Formed by the glaciers 15,000 years ago, when they filled in both ends of a great river valley, Devil's Lake has always occupied a unique place in the Baraboo hills, its still waters surrounded by brooding 500-foot quartzite bluffs. The Indians called it Spirit Lake, and that seems a more accurate description than the modern name. Devil's Lake is one of Wisconsin's busiest state parks, and it tends to get overrun in the midsummer tourist season. But catch it in the off-season, and its brooding presence comes through. It does seem to be presided over by spirits. Black and white seems the best way to capture its haunted mystery photographically on days like this.
Death Valley National Park California
Crystallized salts compose the jagged formations of this forbidding landscape.
Deposited by ancient salt lakes and shaped by winds and rain, the crystals are forever changing.
Listen carefully.On a warm day you may hear a metallic cracking sound as the salt pinnacles expand and contract.
Road trip southwest USA 2014
Day 7 : Spent my afternoon looking for Zebra Slot Canyon. Went left instead of straight, so I took the very wrong way, and walked for about 2h30. Didn't found it obviously, and decided to go back the day after, with some more information about the real trail. I finished the day photographing the sunset at Devils Garden, a cool rock formation not far from Zebra Slot Canyon.
Shot with Canon EOS 5D Mk. I + Tamron SP AF Aspherical Di LD IF 17-35 f/2.8-4 @19mm (geolocated in Flick'R map)
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This photograph was taken on a 12 mile trek in devils garden in Arches national park, Utah. I really liked the aspect that we could see far away snow cap on the mountains in the sweltering heat with thin the arches national park. The showcase of extremes in temperature at different locations and contrast of colors was interesting to capture
Devils Orchard, an area of older lava flows, is slowly being repopulated by limber pine and plants of the sagebrush steppe.