Trees dying under the silk
Originally uploaded by schickr.
21:04 Wednesday, 12 July, 2006 Image112 Earlier this summer I noticed some very white trees with no leaves. A closer walk-by revealed that they were covered with catapillar nests. The other day, I actually wandered into a stand of trees, victims of these catapillars, and found out that the reason the trees are so white is not because the catapillars ate the bark, but because the whole tree was covered with the catapilar gossamer web of silk. Wow. And these trees looked spooky, encased in silk, dead-looking, no life, not even catapillars.
