Subject: Hummingbird food
Date: Feb 22 16:30:16 2001
From: Mike Patterson - celata at pacifier.com


In our neverending quest to figure out what hummingbirds find
so fascinating about willows, several of us have been counting
invertebrates on willows. The most complete data set so far is
from the Astoria Mitigation bank where I have been bagging
willow branches, freezing them then counting bugs/cm since
early January.

At this point it is looking like our prime suspects last year,
Psyllids, a group in the order homoptera is going through what
can only be described as a bloom though a bug from the order
hemiptera (probably a Mirid) has started turning up in samples
this week.

http://home.pacifier.com/~neawanna/observatory/mit_will.html


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Mike Patterson Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo,
Astoria, OR it is not enough to be persecuted
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you must also be right.
---Robert Park
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