This planet was so huge and bright that it made me grab my camera. The Virginia Creeper is hanging down from the terrace roof in front of the sliding glass doors that form the floor to within a few feet of the ceiling in front of my desk.
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Virginia Creeper is named “creeper” appropriately. Here it is creeping down to take over the flower and succulent planter below, as wel as the tree behind it.
Floral Alphabet Challenge, the Letter “V.” If you publish “V” flowers of your own, please link to this post in comments below and also link to Cee’s FOTD.
Somewhere under there, there should be a geranium and moss roses, but perhaps they’ve been choked out by invaders.
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Yes, the vine is a Virginia Creeper, but it hides creepers of a different variety. They are hornworms–the larvae of the hummingbird moth. Every year around this time they come here to dine on the Virginia Creeper, which would be no problem except for the little round balls of excretions they leave all over my terrace and patio table. We find and relocate them to the spare lot. Since the patterns on the four colors of larvae are the same, I’ve always thought they are stages of coloration of the one caterpillar. The fourth color is vivid green. I’ve done blogs on them before. I can find no mention of this elsewhere, although I have seen the larvae pictured on the internet in all of the colors except red. At the largest stage, they are 3 to 4 inches long.
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