Memorial Day
05/25/08
05:58:10 pm by david2, Categories: General, 362 words Memorial Day
It's another Memorial Day up in the Poconos.
The weather? It's a beautiful 70 degrees with bunchy white clouds wandering by. Spring is in full force up here. The oak trees have done their oak explosion sex thing, with a layer of green pollen and lots of little oak things all over everything.
I took out the power warsher and squirted down the upper porch, and then lower porch. For the 3rd year running, a bird has created a nest up in the rafters up the porch, which is fine, save for the constant stream of birdshit that rains down upon the glider-rocker. This year I'm going to find a piece of plywood and screw it up to the rafter to try to catch the rain.
The gypsy moths continue to haunt the place. Last year I had the entire place sprayed aerially with BT-k and then I went nuclear with the pocono tree service: they came in and sprayed sevin locally. When I got up here after they had done the work, the constant rain of frass had stopped.
All around there was devastation: the trees across the street were completely denuded. This year I see that dozens are without leaves, killed due to the stress put upon them from the moths, no doubt.
This morning I heard the constant whine of an airplane circling past. I guessing that they were spraying for gypsies.
The big question in my mind is whether I should spray this year. There was no sign of gypsy caterpillars until about 2 hours ago, when the sun started dropping. Now there are about a dozen webs hanging down from my house, each with a dangling caterpillar. There is no frass dropping yet, I don't think. I suppose I should go out and walk around.
A few caterpillars I can handle. Millions with a constant rain of frass I cannot. I was counting on the heavy hit last year to keep them at bay, and now I'm not sure. I don't want to have another carbaryl/sevin hit: it kills everything in sight, including the moths, ants, daddy longlegs, and pretty much everything else that creeps around. Not good.
The weather? It's a beautiful 70 degrees with bunchy white clouds wandering by. Spring is in full force up here. The oak trees have done their oak explosion sex thing, with a layer of green pollen and lots of little oak things all over everything.
I took out the power warsher and squirted down the upper porch, and then lower porch. For the 3rd year running, a bird has created a nest up in the rafters up the porch, which is fine, save for the constant stream of birdshit that rains down upon the glider-rocker. This year I'm going to find a piece of plywood and screw it up to the rafter to try to catch the rain.
The gypsy moths continue to haunt the place. Last year I had the entire place sprayed aerially with BT-k and then I went nuclear with the pocono tree service: they came in and sprayed sevin locally. When I got up here after they had done the work, the constant rain of frass had stopped.
All around there was devastation: the trees across the street were completely denuded. This year I see that dozens are without leaves, killed due to the stress put upon them from the moths, no doubt.
This morning I heard the constant whine of an airplane circling past. I guessing that they were spraying for gypsies.
The big question in my mind is whether I should spray this year. There was no sign of gypsy caterpillars until about 2 hours ago, when the sun started dropping. Now there are about a dozen webs hanging down from my house, each with a dangling caterpillar. There is no frass dropping yet, I don't think. I suppose I should go out and walk around.
A few caterpillars I can handle. Millions with a constant rain of frass I cannot. I was counting on the heavy hit last year to keep them at bay, and now I'm not sure. I don't want to have another carbaryl/sevin hit: it kills everything in sight, including the moths, ants, daddy longlegs, and pretty much everything else that creeps around. Not good.
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