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Akkkk! So confused! Ok, so there is the regular gold, which the ones on evilBay are painted in?, and you can get the whole family in in stores. Then there is a gold/brown/violet family as well??
Very pretty silk moth! It’s just amazing to me how something so big can be so silent flying……It’s really cool when moths and butterflies hatch too. Their bodies are huge, and the wings all crumpled up, they then pump the fluid stored in their bodies into their wings to expand them. The body on one of the Cecropias I hatched was twice as big as my dad’s thumb when she first came out of the cocoon.
skigod377 wrote:Yeah. Miss Melody was talking about the change in another thread. I dont remember all the additions to the gold, but they’re a’comin!
If you can find that thread I’d love a link!
Go see my guys if you haven’t already! =P
http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o144/Nirvanacat13/
Snake is on the 2nd page.
I had 8 toads at one time and some Gray’s tree frogs that I caught in Wisconsin too. Two of the toads were as big as a large apple….
Entimology, Herpetology, I grew up around this stuff and it is SO much fun to go to a pond and see how MANY diverse critters are in the ecosystem, it’s even more fun to try and catch them! =P
Hawk moths, some people mistake the Cecropias and the Polyphemus as hawk moths, but the following are true Hawk moths. One of the variations is the famed Hummingbird moth, (third pic) which really looks like a hummingbird, about the size of a small hummer too…
Hawk moths are also refered to as tomato horn worm moths, because of the larve which eat tomato vegitation and can destroy a medium sized tomato plant in about 3 days, they are also a favorite of wasps to lay eggs on….The eggs hatch and burrow into the caterpiller, growing and eating while the caterpiller goes on it’s way. When the caterpiller forms into a pupe and starts metamorphizing, so does the wasp, and when the pupe should hatch, out comes a wasp instead of a moth.
God, I feel like I’m on Jerry Springer….
“You need to ditch that two timing biggot and get youreslf a new man!” ROFLMFAO
j/k that was kind of in poor taste….ahh well…..
sunhawk wrote:Spark, I’m sorry your friend would rather believe a fictional TV show (Yes it’s not a real life television show, i’m aware) than you, and that she can’t understand that every convention has it’s weirder extreme elements that have nothing to do with the majority of the con goers. CSI is sensational but it definitely doesn’t pretend to be the ten o’clock news so for someone to think of CSI as an expert on furry is silly.
I’m sorry if my trying to explain CSI’s side of things upset you, it’s just that I’ve met some of the people involved in the show and they are good people. If you don’t watch or like the show, that’s your perogative entirely. CSI is responsible (to a point) for what they create, that I agree, but also people watching have a responsibility to verify the information they get from television, especially if it’s a dramatic show like CSI or ER or whatever. I hope your friend figures that out and stops being so unfair to you.
If your friend doesn’t figgure it out, and doesn’t understand who you are, then is that person really a friend???
SPark wrote:…………………………
Oooooooooookay.
It’s a TV show. It’s not about really fighting crime. Real CSI labs don’t do HALF of what these guys do in the show. They’re not about realism, they don’t care! They’re just about making a good show.
And I’m sure they managed to find a few real furries to talk to, but they obviously ignored everything but the sensational ones.
I don’t really care if they WERE trying to be accurate, because the end result is my having people think nasty, awful, perverted thoughts about ME and the job I love and adore and want to do for the rest of my life, because of CSI, and MTV, and other media. I will never like it. There’s no way to spin it or talk about it, or explain it that will make me happy with that show. They have made me have one of my best friends in the entire world think that I’m a sick pervert who gets off on cartoon animal costumes*. I spent a good hour trying to explain I’m not, and she still doesn’t quite believe me.
That rather understandably upsets me.
*I don’t actually care if somebody does get off on animal costumes, it’s a free country, but I DON’T, and I think that the details of one’s sex life should stay in one’s bedroom, not be shared with the entire world.
Ok, ok, time to throw in my $50 worth….
I do Ren Faires, this is, I believe, on par with Cons of all types, furries, comicon, ect. We get dressed up in costumes, make products that could or were made centuries ago, put on armor, carry weapons, do mock battles etc. It’s a time for all of us “weirdos” who don’t wish to conform to society but have to, to get together, be ourselves and have fun. There is a lot of sexuality involved (how can there not be when a girl in a corset can use her own clevage as pillows..) but we usualy save it for after hours, and it’s usualy the same groups of people. There are a LOT of people who don’t understand us, IT’S BECAUSE WE ARE BEING OURSELVES, WE ARE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT, we all believe we were born to the wrong era, so we re-create it. I believe this is the case with all “groups with strange interests”. It’s about finding your own, finding others who share your outlook on life. EVERY “group” is comprised of human beings (however much some of us don’t want to be humans) from all walks of life, from all levels of perverseness. There are Rennies who give the rest of us a bad name, the ones who get drunk and start waving a sword around (meant in more ways than one), some that get a too carried away with slobbering over a woman, a guild member who gave a 11 year old a seriously loaded pot brownie and had him stumble home to his parrents stoned (this happened about a month ago). My point, is that there are people involved in every group, you get the bad with the good, religious zealots, Rennies, Carnies, soccer moms, workaholics….it doesn’t matter, most of us are harmless, we do things because we belive in them, want to have fun, live. The bad apples are the ones who give us bad repputations, and they are out there.
SP you are focusing on CSI as giving Furries bad names, well, the same could be said about the episode about the rave party, or the eppisode where the wife hired her ex-navy seal bf to kill her husband in a swimming pool….Yes, they pick out the “bad” groups of people, but they do it consistantly, from all walks of life….Furries, teens expirimenting with drugs, jealous wives with rich ex-husbands, complete strangers who happened to push eachother over the edge, little people….Yes it is sensationalism, trying to put on a good show, they try and incorportate science in an interesting way. If you say they give Furries a bad rap, then you have to say they give the whole human race a bad rap. Which, in short, is what they do, it’s just a different group of people each time for the sake of something new to get people to watch.
Honestly, I hope they do a show about the Las Vegas Renniasance Faire, that would be hella cool. Yes, it would show the “bad” side of Rennies, but who cares! People will think what they want, the people who know what Ren Faire is about will still come, some won’t come anymore, others will come because of it….It all ballances out.
You know the value of what you are part of, enjoy that, enjoy the good times you have, expect that there will be biggots and zealots and those who won’t listen. Maybe one day people will understand, become more tollerant, maybe not. Above all else, be secure in who you are don’t give a crap what others think, or what a show portrays, it is still just a show, people who are shallow will forget in time, and those of us who see it as just entertainment will know the difference, will know that there is a difference, and if interested, find out what that difference is for our own growth.
skigod377 wrote:Nirvanacat13 wrote:skigod377 wrote:mimitrek wrote:Oh yes….Christmas vacation will be a dangerous time for me…resistance might break down completely since I have 2 weeks off…if I get sucked into the Dark Side I need to get Ski sucked in too! 😈
Misery loves company, hu? 😆
Ski, join the server Dragonmaw as Horde and I’ll show you the meaning of misery! 😈
Im not skeered of you! *Hides behind chair and sticks out tounge*
*eats deviled eggs*
*drops a SBD*
*watches Ski pass out behind the chair*
*chuckles*
*loads up her Windstones*
WindstoneCollector wrote:Pterodactyl? Sabertooth? *scratches head* Who cares? I finally finished my set!!! Gotta catch ’em all!!! 😉
The sad part is….it’s true…..
skigod377 wrote:mimitrek wrote:Oh yes….Christmas vacation will be a dangerous time for me…resistance might break down completely since I have 2 weeks off…if I get sucked into the Dark Side I need to get Ski sucked in too! 😈
Misery loves company, hu? 😆
Ski, join the server Dragonmaw as Horde and I’ll show you the meaning of misery! 😈
MANA BEAST!!!!! That’s the very end boss in Secret of Mana! Flammie was a type of mana beast, but that purple one was THE Mana Beast! TYTYTYTYTYTYTY for finding that SP!
