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Make sure you treat them again in the spring because they can put out a few generations in a season and multiply quickly. I’ve gotten some pure neem oil off of amazon and mixed it with mild soaps (like those dr bronners castille ones) and water and sprayed some plants with it with some success. That should protect the pollinators since neem only kills when it is eaten. The problem is you really have to saturate the leaves. The systemic non-organic insecticidal soaps work well too, but they probably harm the bees. The systemic ones allow you to just spray the tops of the leaves and then it works its way through the plant. Neem you would have to spray on both sides...kind of a PITA.

Balmier 35.9° here. Tonight’s the night though.

Pinkham had a little bit of yore in their Feb 69 report. Their depth kept going up the same amount as the new snow even with depths well over 100”. Maybe you could argue the depth was correct and they just called the increase in depth as the new snow? How much of that depth was due to drifting? Impressive nonetheless.

Yeah this.

If you like radiating and a short growing season HIE is for you though.

Spotty color here too. I'm not ready to write off the foliage season up here. The forest floor around here can tolerate the minor droughts we get. Lawns are a different story. These numerous 30s should help the foliage out as well.

Opening windows down south while we start closing them.

Ugh...damn COVID. RIP

The green everything state.

We’ve been abused by epStein island all summer

I haven't logged in since 2010.

Sherbrooke hit -31F on the 19th and -33F on the 27th. Both could get you diamond dust.

23 to 80 at the Sinks Saturday. There was another site in UT that went from 31 to 91 Sat and back to 33 Sun morning before hitting 87 again. Pretty insane.

I already envisioned where the coop would go and the birds free ranging. Of course now I have to worry about the VT bears.

How many years back did they have to go to get a sunny pic there?

The Lakes Region up here is packed too. 75% of the plates are out of state.

Moline goes back the furthest...

heh...figured this one out today. They’re white pine seeds. I’ve never seen so many of them before. It looks like the red maples in the late spring.

Was half expecting this to happen at the end.

I grew to love pack living here. Everyone here has their winter thing. PF has the upslope, you guys have the biggies, I have the consistent mod/hvy events and pack, some have the elevation boost, some have the rad cooling, James has the wind...lol. As much as the pack drives me insane sometimes it can be good for the yard. Having 6”+ over the landscape DJFM can really help insulate the plants. The CAD wedges can get depressing though.

Who are you?

Yeah I’ll have to do some digging on samaras from more obscure acer trees. I’ve seen striped maple seeds (have one in the back woods) and they don’t look like this. Other than striped, boxelder, and mountain maple I’m not really familiar with any other of the less common maples.

Looks like 07-08 here. Except it wasn’t down to 10” the next day. lol