Signs

We’re entering the quiet season. You have to look harder for signs of life. Here’s a leaf-miner on American Sycamore, perhaps Ectoedemia plantanella.

Backlit by the sun, this blotch mine on Pin Oak reveals the frass, waste product, on the left, and the organism, a caterpillar, at the upper right, all between layers of leaf.

Eggs of leaf-footed bug laid on underside of Hickory leaflet. They’ve all leaf-footed it out of there.

Eggs of… something under White Oak leaf.

Clustered Midrib Gall Wasp on underside of Swamp Chestnut Oak.

This may be Brown Spot Needle Blight, a fungus called Lecanosticta aciola on the long needles of Longleaf Pine. A few of these southern wonders have been planted in Green-Wood to greet the warming temperatures.