Just for Fun!!! What is this? (insect, survive, chicken, look)

[cowdog]

Originally Posted by harry chickpea

I think that last one is a dead chicken. Am I correct?

ding ding ding!!!

[Okie_Dokie!]

Originally Posted by harry chickpea

I think that last one is a dead chicken. Am I correct?

Ding Ding Ding....Dingdong!!!

LOL!!! Too Funny!

[Okie_Dokie!]

Ok...Guess this one!!
hee...hee...hee...

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by Okie_Dokie!

Ok...Guess this one!!
hee...hee...hee...

Mushrooms. I don't know what variety.

[flatlander52]

hmmm looks like ball of mushrooms, all growing together

[harry chickpea]

Stump covered in wood mushrooms or... the tennis ball my neighbor's dog used to have - the one that got covered with slobber and whatever other yecch he had.

[tamiznluv]

I agree....mushrooms.

[fisheye]

I am presuming that is from a Chinese Chestnut tree? We have a large (about 18 inches diagonally on the stump) American Chestnut. It has been dying off from the top down for the last decade. Usually our nuts from our American Chestnut are not as large as the nut in the center of this picture. However; I don't know if the nut from the American Chestnuts would not be larger if our tree was not dying?

There was a time in the US when 18 inch American Chestnut trees would have been considered small. There was an old picture, posted on the web, of one of these trees and a family of five lined up in front of it – it looked like it was five feet plus across the base. It is too bad that most of these trees died off.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by fisheye

I am presuming that is from a Chinese Chestnut tree? We have a large (about 18 inches diagonally on the stump) American Chestnut. It has been dying off from the top down for the last decade. Usually our nuts from our American Chestnut are not as large as the nut in the center of this picture. However; I don't know if the nut from the American Chestnuts would not be larger if our tree was not dying?

There was a time in the US when 18 inch American Chestnut trees would have been considered small. There was an old picture, posted on the web, of one of these trees and a family of five lined up in front of it – it looked like it was five feet plus across the base. It is too bad that most of these trees died off.

It may be difficult if the tree is hard to get up on, but mud packs on the cankers can keep American chestnuts alive. It gets to be a lot of work though: Mudpacking cankers from blight in the American chestnut - Massachusetts Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation

Those giant chestnut trees must have been quite the sight, one I wish I could see. There are some very large ones in isolated patches still alive but they're quite rare. An 18 inch one is big now. It's a real shame this disease came in. Several tree species are being threatened by introduced pests and insects and diseases: butternut, elm, ash and posssibly even black walnut.

[fisheye]

I actually sent Sara Fitzsimmons, at Penn State, some of the leaves from our tree for identification. She is involved with the American Chestnut Foundation: The American Chestnut Foundation - Penn State She wanted to use our tree for pollination – but it was already starting to dye off. It is now on it's last legs with only about two lower branches still living. I don't think that it will live more than another year or two. We did try fertilizing it to give it a better chance. I had removed a large section of the dead top – which had borers in it. Perhaps I should have given it a systemic insecticide/fertilizer?