What are these little guys? I parked my car under our pine tree and found them all over it. The yellow stuff is pollen. A flock of sparrows was feasting on the little buggers.
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I just washed that car yesterday. Now it looks like yellow pixie dust.
Quote from: Ed W on March 25, 2012, 04:19:16 PM
What are these little guys? I parked my car under our pine tree and found them all over it. ... A flock of sparrows was feasting on the little buggers.
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6053/7015341447_575b299111_o.jpg)
Sparrow food.
We have some hawk food in our area. Some folks refer to them as fuzzy tailed rats. I call them tomato eaters.
Look like maggots. Perhaps feeding on the sap from the tree flowers?
I was thinking maggots too, but they wouldn't be feeding on flowers. This was under a pine tree. It's too early for a bird's nest with dead chicks or rotten eggs, I think. Maybe I could collect some and try to keep them alive until they pupate.
Bag worms maybe?
Bag worms spin large, loose nests with silk and house hundreds or thousands of caterpillars inside it. They ate one of my apple trees, the little ba%#&@(#s. Some worms drop down on a strand of silk, and in fact, there are places in the south where those are pests this spring. But I can't remember their name.
Later in the spring, young spiders will go ballooning. They climb atop a post, a tree, or a mailbox and send out a strand until the wind pulls them away, flying along to greener pastures - and probably guaranteeing genetic diversity among their kind. The silk strands are discarded and they'll cover lawns with a lattice work that almost glows when it's back lit at sunset. I haven't photographed any of them yet, but I will.