+HopSpunge+
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Found this guy on my foundation wall. Thought it was a bat at first. Looked around on the interweb and I think it's some kind of sphinx moth. It is dead stuck to the wall.
The biggest bug ever
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Stauffbier
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We get pretty big moths around my area. It's kind of hard to gain perspective on the size of the one in your photo, though.
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Pic with a dollar next to it.
Stauffbier
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Yeah, that's about the same size of the ones around here. They typically show up in early spring. We had a lot of them this year.
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Hah, thay's a little one! Those things get freakin huge!
How's the quest to clone Prima Pils going? There is an interview with Victory co-owner / head brewed on last Sunday Session. Has some clues on Prima Pils and gives a recipe for Storm King.
How's the quest to clone Prima Pils going? There is an interview with Victory co-owner / head brewed on last Sunday Session. Has some clues on Prima Pils and gives a recipe for Storm King.
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I dono, I pretty much gave up after five batches. Made some good quality pilsners but not prima. I tried what few prima recipes I could find online, but none were close in my opinion.Now I am on a amber lager kick. Hopfully someone here that is a better brewer than me will come up with a worthy clone someday. I think doing decoction mashes might help, I have to still master that aspect of brewing.
when I was a kid, a bunch of us were sitting on my grandparents deck when along came a Goliath beetle. it flew right between mine & my moms heads. it sounded like someone hit the house with a rock. then it got up & flew away. I have no idea where it came from & haven't seen one since. and what the flocc was it doing in SW South Dakota?
Stauffbier
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I've always wanted to see one of those.
the one I saw looked like that but darker coloration. and it was loud when it was flying too.
Stauffbier
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That would be quite a sight to see one of those flying around!
we had moths like that in SD & WY we called Mammoth Moths. they'd get almost as long as that dollar bill. we had a surge in the population one year in the SW corner of SD. insane amount of giant moth bodies everywhere.
We have Palmetto bugs (giant cockroach) that get that big and fly as well! Buhahahaha
Thank god- us city folk don't get any of the weird crap you guys have to deal with. One of the small consolations, I guess.
big city rats are generally bigger than out in the country. too bad they don't fly....
No rats here, just roaches, and even then not anywhere I'd live by choice.
two_hearted
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I've had encounters with Dobson flies and wetas over the lost few years. Talk about bug ugly SOBs...
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+HopSpunge+
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Wow, I never heard of those bugs. So I typed in weta bug into the computer. And the first picture that pops up is a weta bug sitting and eating a full sized carrot like it was tiny snack. Farout......
apparently, weta bug is New Zealand for Satan's Pet Cricket.
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You guys re creeping mee out!!!! I have two fears in life, spiders and dentists. Normally, I can step on spiders but those damn dentists really ***** when I try to step on them 
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