Damage In Tolland Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 This is going to to be an epic bug and insect spring/ summer. Warm winter with zero cold, wet winter until Feb / tons of water in ground and a torch Morch/ Napril.. They’ll be out over next few weeks splatting in car windshields and grills . Not looking forward to that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:23 PM, dendrite said: It won’t be long before those lone star ticks are even up to my neighborhood. They’re more aggressive than other ticks. Expand A smorgasboard for the chickens 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:32 PM, radarman said: A smorgasboard for the chickens Expand Unfortunately guinea hens are more known for clearing ticks than chickens. I haven’t noticed any of my girls eating them as any I catch I squash. But if those lantern flies make it up here it’ll be a fly feast with the way my girls stalk and eat moths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:29 PM, dendrite said: Anyway. Quite a change of the airmass today. It was 34/32 here at 4am but 25/6 a little over 5hrs later. Expand Nice gradient this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick-02540 Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:29 PM, Damage In Tolland said: This is going to to be an epic bug and insect spring/ summer. Warm winter with zero cold, wet winter until Feb / tons of water in ground and a torch Morch/ Napril.. They’ll be out over next few weeks splatting in car windshields and grills . Not looking forward to that Expand The cicadas! 2 of the 15 broods are emerging this year. 1 trillion of those guys will be crawling out of the ground in 2024. Makes the birds go insane a la Tippi Hedren-style. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:50 PM, Patrick-02540 said: The cicadas! 2 of the 15 broods are emerging this year. 1 trillion of those guys will be crawling out of the ground in 2024. Makes the birds go insane a la Tippi Hedren-style. Expand Hopefully gypsies are back on n full force next year . Should be a very dry summer 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick-02540 Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:51 PM, Damage In Tolland said: Hopefully gypsies are back on n full force next year . Should be a very dry summer Expand We had a stand of old Cherry trees along the road-side. That was a particular favorite for the gypsies. The nostalgia of the 80's gypsy moths. Infested trees and old men with black knee-high socks smearing grease around their trunks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:38 PM, dendrite said: Nice gradient this morning. Expand It feels like Arctic tundra out there and it’s really not even *that* cold. Single digits in February, seems normal ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:23 PM, dendrite said: It won’t be long before those lone star ticks are even up to my neighborhood. They’re more aggressive than other ticks. Expand It's probably not entirely true but I've read they don't move slowly. They can run ... and run at you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:29 PM, dendrite said: Anyway. Quite a change of the airmass today. It was 34/32 here at 4am but 25/6 a little over 5hrs later. Expand It seems to be the last of the -EPO's cold loading from last week's dive. Can trace the air mass back... And it does appear to be the last as this week the transition into an entirely new paradigm gets underway. Who's to say if it sets the table for the whole spring (we may regress mid month), but at least that first week of March, the overnight op versions looking more concerted with the ens telecon projection. Lawns tinting green with forsythias 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 https://x.com/bigjoebastardi/status/1761396827021029508?s=46&t=m4Eqkekadb-JCXTm7k-Txg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman19 Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 3:14 PM, Typhoon Tip said: It seems to be the last of the -EPO's cold loading from last week's dive. Can trace the air mass back... And it does appear to be the last as this week the transition into an entirely new paradigm gets underway. Who's to say if it sets the table for the whole spring (we may regress mid month), but at least that first week of March, the overnight op versions looking more concerted with the ens telecon projection. Lawns tinting green with forsythias Expand The wildlife at least thinks it’s over. The birds are all out singing early in the morning now. Sounded like mid-March here today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 3:22 PM, snowman19 said: The wildlife at least thinks it’s over. The birds are all out singing early in the morning now. Sounded like mid-March here today Expand Same here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyEnjoyer Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 Planter boxes are freeing up! They will certainly be snow free at some point this coming week. But then I'll need to clean up the mess underneath the collapsed portable garage. Which I'm not looking foward to. At all. Maybe I can use the loader to pile the rest of the yard's snow on top of it so I don't have to think about it until June... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:58 PM, Patrick-02540 said: We had a stand of old Cherry trees along the road-side. That was a particular favorite for the gypsies. The nostalgia of the 80's gypsy moths. Infested trees and old men with black knee-high socks smearing grease around their trunks. Expand Those were probably chokecheries. Tent caterpillars love nesting in those. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 37 sunny with a breeze. Doesn't feel too brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 Cleaner, much less perforated ridge has trended toward coherence over these last immediate 3 cycles of the operational GFS. Each one was a little improved over the last. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 Two days later ...this is a hinting at synoptic feed-back synergistic warming ...582 dm height to nearly western NS that early is impressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick-02540 Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 4:45 PM, kdxken said: Those were probably chokecheries. Tent caterpillars love nesting in those. Expand Yes, Chokecherries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 2:29 PM, Damage In Tolland said: This is going to to be an epic bug and insect spring/ summer. Warm winter with zero cold, wet winter until Feb / tons of water in ground and a torch Morch/ Napril.. They’ll be out over next few weeks splatting in car windshields and grills . Not looking forward to that Expand Maybe. Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst. Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner. BN tick attachments also. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 5:52 PM, tamarack said: Maybe. Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst. Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner. BN tick attachments also. Expand Oddly last summer was not bad for mosquitoes here. The larvae probably all drowned from the constant rain. As usual ticks were bad spring and fall but fairly scarce in the summer. Interestingly there were a lot of pet owners having flea problems last year. Our vet said it was unlike anything he’s ever seen. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 5:52 PM, tamarack said: Maybe. Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst. Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner. BN tick attachments also. Expand Definitely must have been some regional variance there... It's anecdotal but it was horrible down here. You'd pull into your driveway, park the car, and in broad daylight sometimes even with the sun shining, the mosquitoes would immediately be bouncing off the windows of the car. Closer to dusk you ran to the front door and hoped you didn't drop your keys fumbling around in haste because there'd already be several of them landing on your forearms, while the atonal chorus hummed around your ears. Ticks were everywhere, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 5:52 PM, tamarack said: Maybe. Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst. Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner. BN tick attachments also. Expand Same here. Struck me as very odd. Maybe their pools were washed away with all the rain? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sled Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 4:45 PM, kdxken said: Those were probably chokecheries. Tent caterpillars love nesting in those. Expand On 2/24/2024 at 5:29 PM, Patrick-02540 said: Yes, Chokecherries. Expand If they're proper trees they're black cherry. Choke cherry doesn't grow very large, more like a glorified shrub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 5:52 PM, tamarack said: Maybe. Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst. Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner. BN tick attachments also. Expand Global warming no doubt. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn0waddict Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 Got to appreciate how much nicer 40F full sun and no wind feels this time of year va December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 5:29 PM, Patrick-02540 said: Yes, I Choke My Chicken. Expand Dendrite show you how? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWolf Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 5:06 PM, Typhoon Tip said: Two days later ...this is a hinting at synoptic feed-back synergistic warming ...582 dm height to nearly western NS that early is impressive Expand That’s actually 3.25 days later, from the prior run you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 24, 2024 Share Posted February 24, 2024 On 2/24/2024 at 6:08 PM, HIPPYVALLEY said: Oddly last summer was not bad for mosquitoes here. The larvae probably all drowned from the constant rain. As usual ticks were bad spring and fall but fairly scarce in the summer. Interestingly there were a lot of pet owners having flea problems last year. Our vet said it was unlike anything he’s ever seen. Expand The ticks seem to go away, or estivate, or something from mid-July thru August. Our Parks and Lands peer review forest trip in 2019 was in southern Maine - Newcastle, Swan Island (with its huge deer population), Hebron and Skowhegan, 40 people walking in tick-infested areas in mid-August. I figured we would have a tick-pickin' horror show but, if anyone saw a tick, I never heard about it. (And I was responsible for listening and writing up the trip notes.) Since then, the tick-free Augusts have continued. My personal record was 26 deer ticks at the Topsham lot, but that was in late October. I was tossing them out the window as I drove up I-295 toward Augusta. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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