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- From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Few ripe mulberries
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:43:49 -0400
So much for my bumper crop of mulberries! Although the tree is still loaded with fruit, it is hard to find a ripe mulberry now, the birds are obviously back at work.
I notice a temporal association between having plentiful, ripe fruit and the presence of hundreds of thousands (could it be millions?) of cicadas on my property.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2011-05-11-cicada-great-southern-brood-13-years_n.htm
Is it possible that the birds were so sated with fat, tasty cicadas that
mulberries were left alone, disdained as 'human food'?
Betsy Hilborn
7a Central NC
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- [NAFEX] Few ripe mulberries, Elizabeth Hilborn, 06/09/2011
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