Cape May County Explorations

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I was doing a report on the Chestnut Oak today, and remembered something I thought should be followed up on. At one point, I noted that more than 90% of the Chestnut oak trunks had dead caterpillars on them. All of them just dead, stopped in their tracks. Below is one example I photographed. Today I did a google search, and from what I'm seeing there is a fungus amongst us that kills the gypsy moth caterpillars (spongy moth to be politically correct).

Insect Images

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Entomophaga maimaiga

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The season has begun. This tree is next to their rail trail on a private lot margin. I'd say the tree is very annoyed by this sign. The tree is either trying to eat it or eject it.

Name this tree.

One guy in a homeless camp was fond of both Carl Jung and Star Wars. He had over 100 books, deep in the woods. I see these camps a lot, but every one of them has been abandoned. I think we need to get these people into facilities for rehab and proper care.

 

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Here's an interesting small tree, about 25 feet tall. Can also be a shrub.

 

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The tree in the last post is Wax Myrtle; biggest I've ever seen. My friend Dave told me they have some large ones elsewhere; I think he mentioned that area east of route 50 (cannot recall! A mansion there). Anyways, this one is at least 25 feet. Not that bad for a big shrub.

Anyway, at an old dump up by Goshen, which I deigned to not pick through too much, I found a sliver of a bottle of Dr. Kilmers Swamp Root. Said to be good for kidney, liver, and bladder trouble.

 

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I went to Reed's Beach yesterday. This house is damn near falling down, not far from the beach. Odd that they let this stay like that.

 

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Red Maple seedlings at Cedar Swamp Creek, behind those graves. Oddly, only dead to almost dead cedar is in the swamp, and even those few and far between.

 

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This tree is a brute. I think a sweet gum, did not check. But I think a holly behind it may have caused it to do the curve, and then it reached for the sky.

 

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Scott, found this deep in the woods, so somebody like you also enjoys a chew while out hunting.
Is this the brand you stick between cheek and jowel? Don't the claws bite into your cheek?

 

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This is what that there bellwort flower be lookin' like this time a year.

 

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Lizard-tail coming in gang-busters style, making room for itself.

 

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He thought I was not noticing him, so I started prodding him with a stick, like all boys are wont to do. Damn thing swam towards me. They do have a temper.

 

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This is Carex barrattii, a once-threatened sedge that was delisted several(?) years ago. This was a very unusual patch of over a thousand easily. Amazingly uniform patch about 50' long X 15' wide (a guess). A handsome sedge, I've always said.

 

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I wish I had known you were going to Reeds Beach. You could have taken a photo of the house that now stands at my grandparents place. I have not been there in years but we were there quite a bit as kids.

 

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I wish I had known you were going to Reeds Beach. You could have taken a photo of the house that now stands at my grandparents place. I have not been there in years but we were there quite a bit as kids.

If you give me the adress, and I can get it done without seeming like a house-caser I'll do it. Those houses are tight together.

 

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If you give me the adress, and I can get it done without seeming like a house-caser I'll do it. Those houses are tight together.

No need to worry about doing it.