Mystery Solved!

After doing a little insect sleuthing, I have manage to identify my new "friend" Weird bug. (see yesterdays post )Thank you very much to my blogger friend intenseguy  for pointing me in the right direction! As a grown up moth, it is harmless, it has no mouth.  However, the larvae enjoy munching on various trees, one of which is a Cherry Tree. It is also quite common around here. (go figure) I have a Royal Anne Cherry Tree in my yard which is probably why I came across it, and I love it!

I just picked these last week from my tree. Yummy!

This picture is from the web, also known as Rainier Cherries. These are not pie cherries, just good eatin' cherries. I think you can also make wine from them too.

I don't use any sort of pest control or fertilizer on my tree and I don't want to start, so hopefully there is no reason to be worried. I did send an inquiry to the Washington State Extension office just to be sure.

This concludes today's lesson...

The next post will be all about Fred, I promise!

What The Heck Is This??

Today's post was going to be something completely different here but...

The sun had gone down just enough that I decided to go outside and water my plants and sit for a bit in the beautiful evening that we are experiencing here in the Pacific Northwest. I just took a nice long drink from my glass full of ice tea when out of the corner of my eye I saw this...THING!

For crying out loud! What is it?

Luckily I could use my zoom, I wasn't going anywhere near this thing.

I suppose it's kinda cool in it's own weird way...
It was hard to scale for size, but its about the size of a credit card, just a tad bit smaller.

The camo is just fascinating to me.

Is this alien creature going to eat all my plants?

Should I be worried?

I am really glad it's outside and not inside. I am unclear what exactly my game plan would be if I found this in my house, or God forbid...My Room!

Of course no post of mine would be complete without a picture of Fred.

That's as close as I'm going to get to a smile I think.

(It's still out there)