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Scale insect based community - Eriosoma
Copyright © 2006 Steve Scott

Scale insect based community - Eriosoma
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
May 4, 2006
These scale insects have infested my River Birch. In the morning ants and beetles congregate below the infested leaves to eat the frass? that has fallen during the night.

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Contributed by Steve Scott on 7 May, 2006 - 1:15pm
Last updated 25 May, 2006 - 1:36pm

Honeydew
Sap-sucking insects often deal with sap pressure by releasing some of the liquid (otherwise they might burst!). Mostly it hasn't been processed by their digestive systems, so it still has a lot of sugars and other nutrients in it.

Honeydew has been suggested as a possible non-supernatural explanation for the manna mentioned in the scriptures (I don't buy it). It's true that dried honeydew is still gathered from tamarisk groves in the Middle East- but not enough to live off of for long.

I've actually bought candy in an Iranian market here in the Los Angeles area (some years back) that had this tamarisk manna as an ingredient.
… Chuck Entz, 7 May, 2006 - 11:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Cool
Reminds me of the FarSide cartoon of the mosquito that hit an artery. :)
… Steve Scott, 8 May, 2006 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

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