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This photo captures the incredible feat of nature where young Boeing airplanes hatch from their eggs and begin to crawl onto land. They will stay this way until they can develop their wings.

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picture of several Boeing (or at least what I believe to be) fuselages half submerged in a river with people in boats around them
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It really is a sight to see the juvenile airframes beginning their journey into becoming adult aircraft.
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The Witch of Crow Briar
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They’re born with a thick green skin to protect them and hide them from predators, which they moult when they’re ready to take to the skies.
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for you maybe…… they block up traffic and sometimes attack small water craft… those rafters in the photo are lucky to be alive….
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yeah it is unfortunate that they are an invasive species that takes over entire ecosystems.
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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On the other hand, I've had tremendous luck fishing with wet flies imitating Boeing nymphs. I just bump them along the bottom with split shot and a fluorescent indicator on the surface and have caught some freaking ENORMOUS trout.
Photo of a fly fishing wet fly with a silver bead head and a striped fluorescent green body that looks somewhat like a miniature version of the airplanes in the original photo, tied on a fishing hook.

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(picture source: Kagan Yochim @TripwithKagan/Twitter) In 2017 a train, loaded with 6 Boeing fuselages derailed and 3 of them slid into the river. See boisestatepublicradio.org/envi… for more context.

Tough Task Pulling Boeing 737 Fuselages From Montana River

A Montana Rail Link spokeswoman says it took about 12 hours to remove the first of three commercial airplane bodies that fell into the Clark Fork River…
Associated Press (Boise State Public Radio)
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