weatherwiz Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 This should NOT exist in CT. WTF is this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Someone said it might be a brown recluse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: Someone said it might be a brown recluse Well if it bit you then you better keep an eye on the spot and go to the doctor if something comes up or you feel sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Prob a type of wolf spider (there are many). Brown recluse are not native to New England, although they could hitch a ride here. Any fever or swelling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, yoda said: Well if it bit you then you better keep an eye on the spot and go to the doctor if something comes up or you feel sick That sucker didn't bite me. What did was small and black. It's a bump now and no bite marks so it's a mosquito bite. If that dude bite me I would have had a heart attack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Prob a type of wolf spider (there are many). Brown recluse are not native to New England, although they could hitch a ride here. Any fever or swelling? I think brown recluse are making there way here...it's a product of climate change. I was bite by a mosquito thankfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 22 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: I think brown recluse are making there way here...it's a product of climate change. I was bite by a mosquito thankfully It's why the gypsy moths have evolved to survive the fungus. Doesn't affect them anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 12 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: It's why the gypsy moths have evolved to survive the fungus. Doesn't affect them anymore yup...deniers can't deny anymore. We're headed for horrible times and changes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 21 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: It's why the gypsy moths have evolved to survive the fungus. Doesn't affect them anymore Oh dear...someone needs to take a biology course or two... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Brown recluse spiders are nowhere near New England. They might get into the southern Ohio valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: Brown recluse spiders are nowhere near New England. They might get into the southern Ohio valley. These are the guys you have to watch out for Brazilian wandering spiders hitching a ride on your bananas. Same symptoms as Cialis, only you may die at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 I'm going to block every one of you fother muckers if this posting of spider pics doesn't stop! WTF??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 The amount of food that spiders consume would be equivalent to all of the spiders on earth being able to eat all humans in about one year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 11 hours ago, #NoPoles said: I'm going to block every one of you fother muckers if this posting of spider pics doesn't stop! WTF??? I've got my eyes on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 I wonder if Wiz has ever seen the movie starship troopers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 13 hours ago, OceanStWx said: These are the guys you have to watch out for Brazilian wandering spiders hitching a ride on your bananas. Same symptoms as Cialis, only you may die at the end. If my neighbor saw one of those in her house, she would set the place on fire as she ran out the door! That sucker didn't bite me. What did was small and black. It's a bump now and no bite marks so it's a mosquito bite. If that dude bite me I would have had a heart attack You hope that was not a deer tick nymph - they're not much bigger than your average poppy seed, and fully capable of transmitting Lyme disease (though they need to be attached 24+ hours before doing so, and I'm guessing your bug had only seconds of contact.) All spiders are venomous - that's how they make their living - but few are dangerous and very very few are deadly. The major disease killing gypsy moth larvae is a virus, not a fungus, and apparently it's doing its thing around Ginxy's place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 9 minutes ago, tamarack said: The major disease killing gypsy moth larvae is a virus, not a fungus, and apparently it's doing its thing around Ginxy's place. i should know better than to try to correct the tree guy. But it looks like both fungus and virus are correct. this is from a Concord Monitor article last year: Quote Such outbreaks had cropped up every decade or so since the post-Civil War era, when the gypsy moth was accidentally brought here from Europe, and were growing worse until they were contained in the late 1980s by the deliberate release of a fungus called Entomophaga maimaiga, which consumes the caterpillars from the inside. The fungus is native to the eastern U.S., so there were no concerns about introducing a new species, and its spores survive in the soil even when there aren’t many caterpillars around, so it can respond quickly to a new outbreak. But further down the article: It’s not just the fungus that has tamed the gypsy moth, by the way. There’s a virus that can infect them and cause the caterpillars to climb to the tops of trees, where they literally melt and drip the virus onto the foliage below, to be eaten by other caterpillars. It is sometimes sprayed into woodlands to control outbreaks. Quote http://www.concordmonitor.com/gypsy-moth-caterpillars-NH-3165197 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMike Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 52 minutes ago, SJonesWX said: i should know better than to try to correct the tree guy. But it looks like both fungus and virus are correct. this is from a Concord Monitor article last year: But further down the article: The virus is pretty effective! Each year, I always see dozens/hundreds of caterpillars stuck on the trunks of trees around my mothers property. At first, I presumed they were alive because their bodies looked intact albeit motionless. After a couple days, their bodies liquify, wither, and then literally fall apart. The liquified goo stains the trunks of the trees in which they climbed. Nasty stuff if you're a caterpillar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 3 hours ago, SJonesWX said: i should know better than to try to correct the tree guy. But it looks like both fungus and virus are correct. this is from a Concord Monitor article last year: But further down the article: "A day I haven't learned something is a day I've wasted." (Not original, but I've no idea who coined the phrase.) It's good to know that a native organism is working against the exotic insect, alongside of the virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Watch the video it's worth it. https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2009/03/18/entomophaga-maimaiga-the-caterpillar-killer/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Does anyone know if the recent rains have had an effect on gypsy moths eggs or the production / release of Entomophaga maimaga ? Recent articles are of the canned variety, nothing really new. Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 4 years ago tonight we snowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Ugh, this is boring. Can we go back to 2011 please? I was just starting to get interested in a severe event in the long range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Hoth said: Ugh, this is boring. Can we go back to 2011 please? I was just starting to get interested in a severe event in the long range. Storms coming in off the ocean tonight, always need to watch this setup, could get pretty wild and loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Storms coming in off the ocean tonight, always need to watch this setup, could get pretty wild and loud. Yeah I've actually been watching the radar with some interest. Looks juicy at the least. Nice convective elements in there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajisai Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Thunder in Boston. Nice sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 heavy shower came through and a stray rumble.. was breezy too, heard it inside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Deluge. Over 6" for the month now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Keep an eye out for Carlie's weather balloon. Says she is NWS. Is this one of Upton's balloons? Does NWS use gps tracking to try and recover them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 6 minutes ago, BrianW said: Keep an eye out for Carlie's weather balloon. Says she is NWS. Is this one of Upton's balloons? Does NWS use gps tracking to try and recover them? She is out of OKX. And it would make sense that the balloon didn't go very far since that's about where the upper low is. We have GPS to track the balloons, and originally the plan was to track them to the ground to recover, but it's not very cost effective to send someone out hunting for a radiosonde that could be up in a tree, etc. So the GPS is used to calculate wind speed/direction instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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