Date:         Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:21:04 -0400
Reply-To:     "Stephen P. Stewart" <sstewart@ROMAN.NET>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Stephen P. Stewart" <sstewart@ROMAN.NET>
Subject:      plague
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GABO
 
This afternoon I was mtn. biking and birding on Lavender Mtn. above
Berry College.  There is quiet an invasion or plague of catepillars
making an assault on the mtn.  The chestnut oaks seem to be taken the
brunt of the assault.  Some trees are void of leaves, leaves that have
only been out 1 week!!!!   The roads are blanketed in feces which looks
like black sand.  At one point I was covered in about a dozen
catepillars which were suspended from silk over the road.  This could be
a great year for birds, at least the first clutch.  There will perhaps
be quiet a crash if these insects eat themselves out of house and home.
 
stephen
rome