"Magic Mood Jeep©" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in

Well if it does, then I am just as weird. I move everything that I see in
danger, including alligator snapping turtles, venomous (and non-venomous)
snakes, spiders, caterpillers, turtles, you name it, if it's in harms way
and I see it, it gets moved to safer ground.

Not at all, but please make sure you place them in the direction they are
going.   They are looking for a place to pupate - different criteria for
different species - and they will be well p'd off if you put them somewhere
where they don't want to be!
Had the same problem with elephant hawk moth caterpillars earlier this year,
BF kept presenting me with them :-(
I found out from googling that they pupate underground or in loose dead
leaves.  They were massive caterpillars as long and thick as my middle
finger with eye markings and little trunks, really amazing.  The moth is
large and half of each wing is Barbie pink.

Tweed

When I was a child, we had a very large Box Elder tree in our yard.  We
always had yellow caterpillars on that tree and I loved to play with them.
MLB

Of course not!  But you know those wooly-worms are harbingers of how winter
will be.  If they are mostly black, stock up on firewood and charcoal or gas
for the grill.  Get out the blankets... it's going to be a cold one!  If
they are mostly orange, it will be a mild winter.

Jill

No, it makes you an animal lover. Nobody knows what makes you ultra-weird
;o)

no, it just makes you kind-hearted. :)
Lily & her mama
Jazz, RB

Not by me.  But perhaps that's not a true answer to the question.;)

Theresa
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Make Levees, Not War

If you are, you are in very good company. I rescued two long neck turtles
trying to cross a busy road (used mainly for trucks) and had to take them to
work. Everybody except one thought I was nuts. That one person came to see
the turtles at lunch time to make sure they weren't injured, thanked me
profusely for caring about native wildlife, and taught me a bit about long
neck turtles. As it turns out, I really shouldn'thave taken them to work
with me, and next time I rock slowly trying to negotiate traffic, the best
thing I can do is most circumstances is just assist it across the road
rather than take it to work with me (providing the other side of the road is
a suitable turtle habitat that is). But no harm one done, and it was better
than I had taken them to work in my ignorance than to have left them on the
road to their own devices.

I"ve rescued a small fledgling from the tortures of a magpie, and tend to
stop at intact roadkill to see if anythign can be done. Shmogg, IBKFergus
and even Fluffy are rescues of some kind or another.

If that makes me ultra weird too, I'm honoured to be part of your group.

Yowie

You are a caring human being!
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek

No you are not weird.  I still pick up worms that are on the pavement and
put them on the grass.

I am nice to most caterpillars I encounter, except for
tent-caterpillers which I jump up and down on.

I'm not beyond moving a monarch woolly to somewhere he won't get
stepped on.

--Fil

YES, But keep it up you're a good egg. :)