tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post115171576630727886..comments2024-03-29T01:13:45.853-04:00Comments on Thomasburg Walks: Timing: A tale of two treesPamela Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10167132802880894799noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1152304252898948322006-07-07T16:30:00.000-04:002006-07-07T16:30:00.000-04:00Found you through Festival of the Trees at Via Neg...Found you through Festival of the Trees at Via Negativa. I live in Florida now, but spent 20 years in the Boston area. I'd been concerned in January, seeing trees begin to bud as though preparing to leaf out, but they never crossed that line and the buds made it through subsequent frosts.e_journeyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13381530423919462133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1152026366475356922006-07-04T11:19:00.000-04:002006-07-04T11:19:00.000-04:00I can't really recall how far along the Shagbark H...I can't really recall how far along the Shagbark Hickory are compared to other trees in spring in the forests where we see them growing. One thing I can say is that most of the examples I can think of (trees in Frontenac, Charleston Lake, Murphys Point Prov. Parks, and Foley Mountain Conservation Area, are growing in upland forests, often along high granite ridges above the lakes. Perhaps they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151759955245311652006-07-01T09:19:00.000-04:002006-07-01T09:19:00.000-04:00Pamela -- very interesting articlethanksSuePamela -- very interesting article<BR/><BR/>thanks<BR/><BR/>SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151754329561958712006-07-01T07:45:00.000-04:002006-07-01T07:45:00.000-04:00I came across a couple of mentions of this worm. I...I came across a couple of mentions of this worm. I've never seen a stripped catalpa, so I looked a little deeper this morning and found <A HREF="http://www.ag.auburn.edu/enpl/bulletins/catalpasphinx/catalpasphinx.htm" REL="nofollow">this page</A>. It's the larva of a sphinx moth most common in the southern United States--but they do say it can come up as far as New York State, just across the Pamela Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10167132802880894799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151723959589727532006-06-30T23:19:00.000-04:002006-06-30T23:19:00.000-04:00On certain trees down here, the catalpa worms eat ...On certain trees down here, the catalpa worms eat every last leaf on the tree long before fall. It doesn't seem to bother the trees at all.Ruralityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616461213179182660noreply@blogger.com