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In response to "Baseball History Is No Longer Written With Ash Bats" by crash davis

We managed to save our prized ash tree in our backyard, but lost a few others. Stupid bugs. -- nm

Posted by ML (aka Iadodger) Oct 20 '22, 07:21

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nice! -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 07:52
Yeah we lost both of ours. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 07:27
Do you have spotted lantern flies yet? -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 07:27 12
- we went to costco in harrisburg recently and I was stunned at how many there were all over the lamp posts etc. we barely have them here yet. -- nm - judge amanda jones Oct 20, 07:32 1
  - They're awful here. -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 07:40
- I don't know what those are -- nm - ML Oct 20, 07:28 9
  - You may luck out and your winters might be too cold for them to spread there. -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 07:38 1
    - I don’t think we have them either so may not be this far west yet. -- nm - spamlet Oct 20, 07:58
  - a scourge on this earth -- nm - decline Oct 20, 07:33
  - these nasty buggers - Jovian Oct 20, 07:31 [Attachment] 5
    - SQUISH WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE! - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 20, 08:00 2
      - They actually have me hoping for a bitter cold winter. -- nm - Dano Oct 20, 08:03 1
        
        My guess is after a couple of bad years here, the birds discovered a tasty new snack when the nymphs emerged in the spring. - znufrii, official Gen-Xer Oct 20, 08:05
    - pretty. do they bite? -- nm - Beaker Oct 20, 07:56 1
      - nope. but they're really good at killing trees and bushes -- nm - decline Oct 20, 08:07
How were you able to save it? -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 07:22 7
- Encased it in carbonite -- nm - Strongbad Oct 20, 07:34
- Put it in a tree museum? -- nm - mafic Oct 20, 07:32
- Converted it into popsicle sticks, then glued them together to make a tree. -- nm - Ender Oct 20, 07:31
- there are chemical treatments--the gold standard is injecting directly into the trunk every couple of years -- (link) - ML Oct 20, 07:28
- They've been testing some type of innoculation in our area. The art association had an ash - TWuG Oct 20, 07:25 1
  - well, that sucks -- nm - crash davis Oct 20, 07:28
- encased it in plastic -- nm - decline Oct 20, 07:22

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