I have just resurrected this data logger… it thinks it is the year 2043. I am not a time scientist, maybe it’s right?

🐛Eastern tent (light stripe down body) vs. Forest tent (footprint-shaped spots) caterpillars. Both make silk nests to grow up in, Eastern uses the crotches of small trees, I think the Forest uses the ends of branches and makes more like a hammock, but I haven’t found a Forest nest for pictures yet!

Tiny leaf season is in full swing! Some ancient specimens: the ginkgo tree and the deciduous dawn redwood with its delicate little fronds🌲 That one was thought to be extinct, only known in the fossil record, til one was found in the ‘40s deep in a forest in China. Now we grow them ornamentally🙂

Red oak acorns take 2 growing seasons to mature on the tree then they drop in the fall but don’t germinate ‘til the following spring. Looks like this is shaping up to be a good year for red oak regeneration!! #oak #northernredoak #valleyfalls #treesarecool