Re: a non-aroid question, a non-aroid suggestion!!!

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.11.10 at 15:23:44(5664) Hi Les, This I`ve read of somewhere, it is Mother Natures 'feast and famine' thing, it occurs because of weather cycles, and SOMETHING happened in your area in the past year that caused this, either in the rain or lack of, or it may have been something/sometime in the reproductive cycle of the trees themselves, no wind when the pollen was being shed, or whatever. This well-know cycle causes the great fluctuations in all the life forms dependant on this source of food, everything from Deer and other mammals at the 'high' end to insects and maybe even fungi, etc. on the 'low' end suffer great population drops or increases, depending on the feast or if it is a 'famine' year. Lots of skinny deer, squirrels, dying owls, etc. can be expected for you this year! When the oaks produce an abundance of fruit/seed again, there will be baby owls being found and brought in to shelters everywhere, and lots of extra life seen and killed on the roads everywhere! Back in Trinidad the cycle for owls was about every 6 years, yellow fever was around 20 years, and no one knows what the cycle may be for humans world wide, BUT we sure are due a 'famine/illness' cycle (BIG scare a couple years ago in Hong Kong when a new flu strain crossed over from fowl to humans, all poultry in the entire area were destroyed to prevent the spread!!!!) I believe the latest is the AIDS epidemic , but previous it was a 'minor' die-off by 'Hong Kong' flu, and there was the big die-off in the late 1800`s-early 1900`s from the 'Spanish flu', the Irish potato famine was another, etc.!!! That`s life! Julius +More >OK, so this has absolutely nothing to do with anything even remotely connected with aroids. What happened to the acorns on Long Island this year? Last year the rattle of them falling against the skylights created such a racket that I couldn't have slept in my new bedroom even if it had been ready. The aftermath included sheets of acorns on the ground sometimes a couple inches thick. This year I haven't seen a single acorn. I understand that there might be some variation in seed production from one year to the next - but zero acorns? I truly haven't seen a single one and my property is covered with tall oak trees. (I expect to find skinny squirrels begging for scraps.) Les<

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