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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3220766, member: 7631"] I quite enjoyed this. It was really just a twist on posting pics, but y'all came through. 1) Sorry for the poor pic. The trees are beeches, and the insect is commonly called the beech scale. Kudos to SVC for causing me to question my clue and look it up. The scales enable the disease by perforating the bark; this enables a fungus to infest the trees between the bark and wood, causing the sores. 2) Choke and SVC 3) The little guys are a type of sasparilla. We're usually up there when the plants are be 4) NWHoops and Rocket lead a quartet 5) SVC identifies it, and FightinChoke even gives the fly a name and reminds me that we were about 200 feet from a stream (and a pond) when I snapped this one. 6) Rixx rings in along with three others correctly identifying our nesting pair as wedded for life. 7) Bantamlaker and Choke ring in with fatwood. I've also heard it called heart pine and lightwood. We were very excited when our pack of kindling had a couple of pieces of it, as it rained most of the time we were camping. 8) Believe it or not, Mount Desert broke away from the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa many millions of years ago. 9) Bantam leads a trio in identifying the lady slipper. I'd never seen so many; we probably saw close to 100 plants. 10) Gamecock and three others 11) Rocket, Choke, and SVC with some good data on milkweed. We planted milkweed in our yard (our suburban neighbors don't hate us as far as we know, but they sure think we're weird) about ten years ago, and saw the first caterpillar last year. We were excited to see many pillars on some milkweed near my sister's house in Maine. 12) A quartet identifies the pitcher plant. I'd never seen blooms this size on them. A few years back, I gave my wife a subscription to a carnivorous-plant-of-the-month club. We didn't have much luck with pitcher plants, but she's had enough luck with flytraps that she's been able to sell some. 13) Rocket and Choke correctly identify the red squirrel; SVC with extra credit for humor. 14) SVC, NWH and Rocket show their steadiness by identifying the erratic. 15) A trio know their shelf mushrooms [/QUOTE]

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