There is a reference to this worm in this text about tomatoes. It seems that in the past people feared the fruit and the worm that consumes it.
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If you find hornworms again next year (and you probably will), there’s a bacterial spray (that you may already know about?), Captain Jack’s, that works really well to eliminate these voracious beasts.
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This stuff?
Works really well on fire ant mounds in the food garden beds too. Drenching is a hassle to get the queen but at the very least they move house and take a huge population hit.
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I opened up the kitten room this morning then sat on the couch to play word puzzles. Now I’m trapped!
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That’s the stuff!
[Fortunately, fire ants are not one of my many issues in the garden.]
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I’m loving the little “grouchy face” one. The one on the upper right, correct? 
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The day was sorted…
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Oh, cool! We get a lot of the double breasted cormorants around here, but I’ve never seen a great cormorant.
A lot of very good ones, but no great ones 
Last time I was down in the Florida Everglades I got pretty excited about anhingas, which remind me of cormorants a bit, but sit even lower in the water when they’re swimming. A nickname is “snake bird.”
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Can’t get it in focus bc he moves so much, but here’s the adorable Poly playing with a feather this morning. See that paw?
ETA: one more. I call her Annie, she’s the orphan the mom took on.
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Count Rugen!
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My wife asked me to ask you how many cats are in your house.She said all the kittens were sooooo cute. I had to agree with Her.
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Spotted-tailed quoll
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Jawlene… 
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that’s horrible!
i saw it when they first caught it. so sad. they think the poor creature was hit by a boat prop that cut his nose right off.
don’t know how it smells, now?
awful!
edit typo
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It is awful, but I’m glad she’s been found and hopefully, she will get the care she needs to live a long and happy life!
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A log ad happy life.
FTFY 
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Right now we have 7. The momma kitty, her 5 kittens she gave birth to, and the little orphan kitten she has been nursing (the white one).
Generally foster kittens stay with one until 8-weeks old so they weigh enough to get spayed/neutered. In that case, we’ll have this clouder for another 3 weeks or so.
Our shelter is so overwhelmed with cats right now, though, that if they need us to keep them longer, we will.
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They are so cute that probably we won’t return them :^)) Thanks for you work! Parabéns!
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