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2 minutes ago, yoda said:

Well if it bit you then you better keep an eye on the spot and go to the doctor if something comes up or you feel sick

That sucker didn't bite me.  What did was small and black.  It's a bump now and no bite marks so it's a mosquito bite.  If that dude bite me I would have had a heart attack 

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1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Prob a type of wolf spider (there are many).  Brown recluse are not native to New England, although they could hitch a ride here.

Any fever or swelling?

I think brown recluse are making there way here...it's a product of climate change.  I was bite by a mosquito thankfully 

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2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Brown recluse spiders are nowhere near New England. They might get into the southern Ohio valley. 

These are the guys you have to watch out for

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Brazilian wandering spiders hitching a ride on your bananas. Same symptoms as Cialis, only you may die at the end.

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13 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

These are the guys you have to watch out for

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Brazilian wandering spiders hitching a ride on your bananas. Same symptoms as Cialis, only you may die at the end.

If my neighbor saw one of those in her house, she would set the place on fire as she ran out the door!

That sucker didn't bite me.  What did was small and black.  It's a bump now and no bite marks so it's a mosquito bite.  If that dude bite me I would have had a heart attack 

You hope that was not a deer tick nymph - they're not much bigger than your average poppy seed, and fully capable of transmitting Lyme disease (though they need to be attached 24+ hours before doing so, and I'm guessing your bug had only seconds of contact.)
All spiders are venomous - that's how they make their living - but few are dangerous and very very few are deadly.

The major disease killing gypsy moth larvae is a virus, not a fungus, and apparently it's doing its thing around Ginxy's place.

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9 minutes ago, tamarack said:

The major disease killing gypsy moth larvae is a virus, not a fungus, and apparently it's doing its thing around Ginxy's place.

i should know better than to try to correct the tree guy. But it looks like both fungus and virus are correct. this is from a Concord Monitor article last year:

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Such outbreaks had cropped up every decade or so since the post-Civil War era, when the gypsy moth was accidentally brought here from Europe, and were growing worse until they were contained in the late 1980s by the deliberate release of a fungus called

 Entomophaga maimaiga, which consumes the caterpillars from the inside.

The fungus is native to the eastern U.S., so there were no concerns about introducing a new species, and its spores survive in the soil even when there aren’t many caterpillars around, so it can respond quickly to a new outbreak.

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It’s not just the fungus that has tamed the gypsy moth, by the way. There’s a virus that can infect them and cause the caterpillars to climb to the tops of trees, where they literally melt and drip the virus onto the foliage below, to be eaten by other caterpillars. It is sometimes sprayed into woodlands to control outbreaks.

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52 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

i should know better than to try to correct the tree guy. But it looks like both fungus and virus are correct. this is from a Concord Monitor article last year:

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The virus is pretty effective! Each year, I always see dozens/hundreds of caterpillars stuck on the trunks of trees around my mothers property. At first, I presumed they were alive because their bodies looked intact albeit motionless. After a couple days, their bodies liquify, wither, and then literally fall apart. The liquified goo stains the trunks of the trees in which they climbed.

Nasty stuff if you're a caterpillar!

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3 hours ago, SJonesWX said:

i should know better than to try to correct the tree guy. But it looks like both fungus and virus are correct. this is from a Concord Monitor article last year:

But further down the article:

 

 

"A day I haven't learned something is a day I've wasted."  (Not original, but I've no idea who coined the phrase.)  It's good to know that a native organism is working against the exotic insect, alongside of the virus.

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6 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Keep an eye out for Carlie's weather balloon. Says she is NWS. Is this one of Upton's balloons? Does NWS use gps tracking to try and recover them?

She is out of OKX. And it would make sense that the balloon didn't go very far since that's about where the upper low is.

We have GPS to track the balloons, and originally the plan was to track them to the ground to recover, but it's not very cost effective to send someone out hunting for a radiosonde that could be up in a tree, etc. So the GPS is used to calculate wind speed/direction instead.

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