The caterpillars
Are already
Eating summer
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20 June 2010
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Oh...love this one, Brian.
One year when I was a child the gypsy moth caterpillars were so bad that whenever you went outside for two months you could *hear them chewing*. It was actually terrifying, like the world was being devoured by some kind of alien creature. By the end of July all the trees were completely bare of leaves. Summer had been eaten ...
Posted by: Melissa Allen | 21 June 2010 at 04:37 PM
Thanks Melissa! I couldn't help wondering whether the caterpillars in this instance had eaten themselves into extinction - there was no sign of them, and the bushes were bare.
Posted by: Brian | 21 June 2010 at 04:56 PM