I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours Mon June 16

casey_nfld

12 years ago

At Bird Kingdom, Niagara Falls, last June

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jim_1 (Zone 5B)
12 years ago
Outside my front door last fall.
joan_mn
12 years ago
Outside my back door, this spring.
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Bob, You're gonna have to start wearing long pants when you are invading his turf!
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Amelanchier has many names, depending where you live. Here in PA most people know it as shadblow serviceberry or just shadblow. I did make a pie from the berries the first year that the trees bore. Apparently it took the birds awhile to realize how good they were. My reason for planting the 6 trees in the first place was for the birds, so I let them have all they want. The berries are very seedy, more so than elderberries, so making jam or jelly would mean more work than I want to do. Littlemonkey, that jam recipe does sound good though. Mine are shrubby trees that sucker profusely. Dh keeps after the suckers to keep them from taking over the yard. Here are 3 of them in bloom in mid April. They like moisture and are planted here with a River Birch.
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I like how we are derailing this thread with talk of cheese. So I looked it up and I didn't realize from your post above it was a mixture of the two types of milk. I've had sheep cheese before (soft spread one) but my sheep do not have good enough udders for milking. There teats are teenie tiny. PITA to milk. Also, though I'm sure it would be good as a cheese, last year I did try sheep milk for the first time from our sheep and thought it was soooo disgusting. I'm sure it would be good in a cheese though since it was very strong. I have done feta before and it was very easy and very good. It looks like a similar concept, just different bacterial culture. I love cheese.
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I was similarly skeptical a few years ago when people were saying that the 17-year cicadas damaged many trees the previous time they were here. I reasoned that since adult cicadas don't eat anything, how could they possibly damage a tree. However when the massive brood emerged, the resulting damage looked exactly like susan_wv's image. As you say, the females do cut slits in twigs and deposits eggs therein. When the eggs hatch, larvae drops to the ground to begin the cycle anew. The key is when the 17-year cicadas emerge, there are lots of them -- as many as 1.5 million per acre. Each female proceeds to lay about 500 eggs choosing branches that are about 1/4 inch in diameter. Consequently in heavily affected areas all of the branches of that size are completely covered with slits to that point that the branch dies.
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gazania_gw
12 years ago
Clinging to the screen on the back door.
nicole__
12 years ago
My cat found this....:0)
murraysmom Zone 6a OH
12 years ago
I found this up in the sky last fall.
bob_cville
12 years ago
Getting caught up, since I was gone for about a week.

This saddleback caterpillar will deliver a painful sting if you happen to bump up against it. A tree guy working in my yard found it with his elbow.

I had been stung on the back of the neck a week earlier by a different species of stinging caterpillar, and looked after the tree guy got stung, and found this one.

I didn't even know "Stinging caterpillars" existed, and then I find two different ones in my yard in the space of a week.
murraysmom Zone 6a OH
12 years ago
Bob, I've never heard of stinging caterpillars! Thanks for the heads up and sorry about finding out the hard way.

That little bugger you show looks amazing with the "shirt" he is wearing. Nature never fails to amaze!

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I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours Mon June 16

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