Author Topic: Solved Sweet Gum (Read 5907 times)

Tom · « **on:** December 05, 2001, 06:23:19 pm »

Now that most of you have no leaves, What is this?

Kevin · « **Reply #1 on:** December 05, 2001, 06:36:17 pm »

A house fly ?

Tom · « **Reply #2 on:** December 05, 2001, 06:44:10 pm »

Kevin !!!

You're 33 1/3 percent correct.

LeeB · « **Reply #3 on:** December 05, 2001, 11:35:29 pm »

sweetgum

Tom · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2001, 06:06:02 am »

Yep, that is sweet gum. You got it Leeb.

Now to complete the puzzle,

What is this?

CHARLIE · « **Reply #5 on:** December 06, 2001, 09:18:42 am »

Coleoptera!

Tom · « **Reply #6 on:** December 06, 2001, 01:58:22 pm »

nope...snicker!

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #7 on:** December 07, 2001, 12:08:47 pm »

Hemiptera

Tom · « **Reply #8 on:** December 07, 2001, 01:28:15 pm »

No, but I'll help you out. How about starting with Dictyoptera.

CHARLIE · « **Reply #9 on:** December 07, 2001, 02:03:11 pm »

Tom, if that ain't a beetle I don't know what it could be. It has hardened elytra for crying out loud!

Their ain't no such word as Dictyoptera! Sheesh! Ya trying to confuse the exspurt? Huh?

Is it a Tumblebug....or a stinkbug.....or a blackbug? Or maybe a Sweetgumleafborer..... :-/

Tom · « **Reply #10 on:** December 07, 2001, 02:58:01 pm »

OK, Charlie. Your eyes must be pretty good. Hmm Hardened Elytra huh, Hemiptera and homoptera share that trait to some extent with Coleoptera but Dictyoptera doesn't quite make it. The first pair of wings are denser than the second but not hardened. This is Blatteria, commonly called a cock roach but in its early nymphal stage. I think it was a brown banded roach but I am not familiar enough anymore to make an identification without a picture.

Ya'll don't have many of these critters outside way up there do you?

CHARLIE · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2001, 09:16:36 pm »

Well, that jes' plum warn't fair. A young nymphalmaniac cockroach. How in the name of the picture on a quarter do you expect us to figger that out 'specially when the picture was so tiny. SHEESH!

If it twere a cockroach.....I hope you squshed him..............

We don't have roaches up here that I know of....but we got lots and lots of spiders. :-/

rebocardo · « **Reply #12 on:** November 03, 2003, 11:01:13 pm »

I cut down a tree for only $50 because I thought it was a maple. After seeing the little burrs/nuts I then realized I made a mistake ... I see it has a medium firewood rating, so I guess all is not lost. Supposedly it is good for furniture, though considering all the oak I am cutting up, I can not see using it for anything except for trim.

Is it really sweet and tastes like gum if we chew the seeds?
:-D

Bro. Noble · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2003, 03:42:15 am »

Wasn't Coleoptera some woman that rode her horse around the town square in the alltogether?

Paul_H · « **Reply #14 on:** November 04, 2003, 07:03:19 am »

That was Lady Godiva,and she knew exactly what she was doing,where Coleoptera, was in denial.

Bro. Noble · « **Reply #15 on:** November 04, 2003, 10:38:29 am »

Thanks Paul,

That stuff was always hard for me to remember. Which one of them gals was it that was carring on with that French dude Neopolitan?

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #16 on:** November 04, 2003, 01:17:04 pm »

Coleoptera was that Egypt gal, wasn't she?

DanG · « **Reply #17 on:** November 04, 2003, 01:36:32 pm »

Yeah. She got snakebit down in tha river swamp. :-/

Paul_H · « **Reply #18 on:** November 04, 2003, 03:41:54 pm »

Noble,I believe Neopolitans girl was Jehosaphat.Kind of a nervous,jumpy type.

Bro. Noble · « **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2003, 05:36:55 pm »

Paul,

Jumping Jeosephat !!

Doesn't ring a bell. I must have missed Sunday school the week they had that lesson.

I'll take your word for it though.

geography is more my field but I'm forgetting some of that too. I was looking on the members map and I can't remember which one is Alaska and which is Hiwaaee. Which is SE of Texas and which is SW?

Oh shoot, I figgered it out. I pushed Andy Fields name and the one SW of Texas had a tree turn red---------I'm no Punkinhead

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Author Topic: Solved Sweet Gum (Read 5907 times)