I was suddenly reminded of the immortal words of Socrates when he said "I drank what?"

Non-clickable pictures to enlarge piss me off!

That being said, the phrase "tiny bug" made me laugh:)

Beer is the only thing known to attack servers in Kentucky, submitter.

But aren't the servers in Virginia now?

Speaking of Fark servers, where's the pics from the move?

At least they aren't gonna kill them the slow way by giving cigarettes to trees!

This is greenlightable?

Okay, I guess so.

/drinks hemlock.

POISON HEMLOCK

--------------------------


HEMLOCK TREE


/did not realize this until college

Heeeeeeeey! Republicans like trees too. I've planted at least 20 on my properly since 2001. Believe it or not, republicans drink water and breathe air too.

I ama zee TRUFFLE!
I surrender maintenant!!!!

Zombie Socrates! He's undead and out for revenge, but still has time to stop and philosophize with everyone in the agora

Socrates' revenge, a Greek version of Montezuma revenge.

Me, I blame the Kentucky werewolves.

hemlock - the bane of the platypus

TREE FLU!

Duke sucks...

/happy now?

Damn you Socrates!

You win this round.

This blight is going on all over the eastern seaboard, I think it's some chinese parasite (no, not walmart, a bug

Drew,

When the hell are you going to make a "kentucky" tag? I lived in Western Kentucky for 16 years and you would be surprised at the number of imbreds out here.


Make the world a better place, punch everyone from Paducah, Ky in the face.

computer wizard,

Surprised at the number of inbreds in Kentucky? RLY?

server...

Don't worry...the world's greatest detective is on the case!

sometimes drugs do funny things

As a fellow Kentuckian, I have to second the need for a Kentucky tag. I live in central KY but for real inbreeding, you need to go to eastern KY, places like Hazard and whatnot. Some real creepy and inbred farks live there.

Egad, Annagrammer! You beat me to it!

Stupid double N... ¬_¬;

mialynneb: Non-clickable pictures to enlarge piss me off!

While we're ranting, one thing that pisses me off is when you click to enlarge and the "enlarged" picture is even smaller .. ??

Mr_Smartypants:

And now...

No. 3...

The Larch

The... Larch

what a great topic

/naught

all the better to hear you with

Funny. I do outdoor education in Massachusetts (my organization has sites around New England), and one of the standard spiels we give kids is about the Eastern Hemlock tree, how you can get antioxidants from chewing on their needles, how they make good natural umbrellas (b/c of their dense foliage), how their twigs make good kindling, and their dense bark keeps fallen hemlock wood dry on the inside for firewood for up to a week of rain (it's true; I successfully started a fire with found hemlock sticks after a week of solid rain), and finally how the kids should enjoy the hemlock trees in front of them while they're here, because in 20 years they'll be extinct because of the imported bug that attacks and kills hemlock trees and has no natural predators in this country and is spreading uncontrollably and that's what happens when you introduce species.

This article actually has some useful information and puts things in a bit of perspective.

And Eastern Hemlock trees are really cool.

/totally toasted
//it's a Thursday night of a hell week -- tough inner city kids
///boss bought us cases -- yeah boy!!

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the hemlocks are all dying
And the bugs ignore their pleas.

KickahaOta

I hope you didn't Rush just to get that post out.

What pisses me off is when I fall down on stick and my eve pops out and a crow grabs my eyeball and flys off. .
/ that pisses me off.
//then a field mouse crawls into my eyesocket and builds a nest.
///HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

wiredroach

Beer is the only thing known to attack servers in Kentucky, submitter.

Here in PA, our biggest problem is Coffee attacking the servers.

TROTTIN GENIUS

Oh, yeah, that really smarts.

keyboard... new

VTMarik
At least they aren't gonna kill them the slow way by giving cigarettes to trees!

Wes says the world is heading for the big flush and we are going to be the ones clinging to the rim.

/It's weather like this that makes you realize men have nipples too
//It is eaither a brilliant obscure? reference
///or a crappy joke

FTFA: "In hopes of getting more funding to fight the sap-sucking bug, forestry officials invited state and congressional lawmakers from 17 eastern Kentucky counties to an information meeting Thursday at Pine Mountain.

None showed up."


/I LoL'd

Hey, hemlock wooly adelgid. We've got it all over the place down here in SC...

...and there's not really anything we can do about it!

/Sorry. Tired.

sector7g
Aren't the servers in Virginia now?

As I recall, the Shenandoah has already been rightly farked up by the adelgid.


jonathanjo

While I know that it is quite devastating, I don't think that hemlocks will be gone in 20 years. There are two reasons for this:
1. It's Pennsylvania's state tree, and its effects are being studied pretty hard up there. Corrupt as H-burg may be, I think that they'll fund plenty of work to stop this little bugger, especially because hemlock ravines are so key to trout habitat, which is in turn a key to a large part of the economy in certain counties. (North-central Penna., here's looking at you.)
2. Not every hemlock that is infected is killed. Some trees, such as one in my back yard and others I have personally seen in N.E. Penna., manage to live and grow quite well with the fuzz on 'em. So while I see certainly vast reductions in some currently dense areas, I also forsee a slow comeback as the resistant specimens are selected. Also, I feel like the state that gave us Gifford Pinchot might manage a pretty good replanting effort from resistant strains if there's significant damage.

McClure admitted that holding the meeting five days before the Nov. 7 general election was bad timing

Obvious tag wrestles with Dumbass.

"Well, today I could either spend trying to get reelected; or go catch a glimpse of the woolly adelgid feasting on hemlocks, which might tell me what I should have done about them, if I had instead spent the day being reelected to the post where I could have done something about them."

We have a couple Hemlocks we planted on our property. My wife read that using Merrit, the grub control product, around the tree helps protect against the adelgid. It also helps that there aren't any other Hemlocks nearby so we're unlikely to get the little buggers.