Happy Goo Day!
I was mistaken in thinking that I'd already missed Orange Goo Day this year... That is, the day the Cedar-Apple Rust and Cedar-Qunice Rust make their outlandish annual appearances.
Hooray! I hate to miss it. This year the appendages seem more noodly than ever, don't they? I wonder if that's because it's rained so much in the past year.
Well, if you aren't hip to the whole orange goo phenomenon, don't fret. I wasn't either, until we moved out to the country. You can read my past posts (with slightly more scientific explanations) here.
So, was it Goo Day with you too? Did you have fun shouting sporulation and heteroecious and gelatinous telial spore horns?
Interesting specimans! We celebrate Goo a week or two later than you. Thanks for the heads-up though. I might have forgotten to watch for it, if you can imagine that.
ReplyDeletehappy goo day! i've never seen it here, but i've not seen cedar trees here either.
ReplyDeletesoon it will be time for star wars day! (may the fourth be with you...) i like holidays that no one else celebrate.
Until today, we've been too dry here for the celebrated Gymnosporangium goo day.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a flying spaghetti monster. If only they read blogs written by people who take a look around them, the FSM people would know we've found their deity, it's orange, and it roosts in JUNIPERS.
It's the simple things in life that give the most pleasure. Like Goo Day.
ReplyDeleteNo goo here in NJ, yet.
ReplyDeleteNo goo in my part of Missouri. Yet.
ReplyDeleteLaura, they were extra juicy this year. :)
ReplyDeleteEricka, I hadn't heard that one before - love it!
Wayne, I'll bet you get them soon.
Anon, you have it exactly.
LauraH, it will come soon for you, I hope.
Pablo, I hope you don't miss it. I can't remember if you have a lot of cedars on your place or not.
I have seen some weird things in the woods, but never that! Freaky!
ReplyDeleteWe don't seem to have any here, but I am definately going to find some occasion to shout "sporulation!". :)
ReplyDeleteI thought this was going to be a post on dog slobber.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, we never saw them at our place near B'ham either. There are just a lot more cedars here.
ReplyDeleteShannon, you have to have the secondary host nearby too. Well, within a mile or so... any type of apple, even crabapple. Or a quince.
FC, it so easily could have been. :)
The first time I saw that stuff I thought it was an alien invastion.
ReplyDeleteFortunately -- we don't get it here where I live!