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All the news and the views ofBrian Thomas. Monday morning at five on
fifty five krc D Talkstation, hereis your ninth first yardning forecast. Today.
We're gonna get off the cold startwith the high today at fifty eight
tonight clear thirty five. On Sunday, patreew frost in the morning, the
sixty three for the high. Cloudsare going to move in nighttime showers and
(00:21):
thunderstorms. And then on Monday partysunny seventy five degrees seven fifty five hundred.
Here fifty five KRC the Talkstation.Welcome back here in the garden with
Ron Wilson. You know the oldsaying be careful what you ask for,
because you just might get it.Well, you've all been asking for the
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last three weeks. When's he comingback. Well, you asked for it,
you got it. Ladies and gentlemen, It's time for the buggy.
Joe bugs A poor mister Joe Buggsthat sis a Professor Commercial Order coach educated
for the Oapsate University Extension OSU Department, atomuse still the poster boy for the
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o s U Extension, co creatorof Martha Coffee and for him his website,
b Y G L dot O,s U dot E d U ladies
and gentlemen. Mister common says,he called himself Buggy Joe buck Man.
What a good morning. How areyou there? They are? Wait a
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second, wait a second. Whatwhat's that noise in the background. I
think that's the ratings crashing. Ithink that's what I hear. Everything that's
all apart radio is getting turned off. I keep talking. Everybody kept be
emailing me. P people kept beemailing me, even my own sister.
Even my own sister yesterday email said, hey, when is Buggy Joe coming
(01:56):
back? What do you at ourrating? I just said, our ratings
can't stand that kind of a hit. I just told people just be careful
what you wish for, because he'scoming faster than you think. A bad
penny, welcome back, but welcomeback. Oh it's good to be back.
And what a day man. WeIt is sunny and uh, I'm
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pretending it's warm out there right,A little chilly, little frost on the
pumpkin this morning, A little bitchilly, but boy it is. It's
just a beautiful day. After theI heard you and Gary talking about all
the rain and the flooding and yeah, my neighbor next door all the hammering
he was doing and it's no afloatshme, he live just next door and he
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oh does he? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're you're right, you're
right in the same line that thatGary and I are. And when the
fronts come through, you get himfirst, then Gary gets them after you
that I'm on the other side ofGary, So we all kind of get
that. Yeah, we're online,right, Yeah, well, you know,
sadly, of course, we hadsome pretty high wind damage and you
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know, tornadoes and and of courseyou know, we're not the only people
in the listening you know area thatthat that were hit. But uh,
but thankfully we made it through andyou know, in their immediate surroundings.
But the flooding, though, thatwas pretty remarkable. I've you know,
listening to you all, I wasthinking about, you know, they never
(03:27):
seen that before, you know,right, and and how many you know,
my wife and I looked out theback of the house and you know,
there was a river between us andthe next property, and we were
just trying to gauge had we everseen that deep? Uh, it is
not an uncommon thing to see,you know what I just described. But
my point being is that now wekind of concluded that, No, that
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was a little bit deeper. Imean, you know there were sailboats.
I mean we've never seen that,you know, hobbycats. Yeah, So
what has been going on on theRon Wilson front. Well, we're just
you know, waiting for things towarm up consistently and get it on.
(04:10):
Of course, kind of hold thereins back a little bit, you know,
with everybody as we try to creepthrough the ups and downs of the
cold and warms and all of thatand watching watching soil temperatures. People get
tired of me every Saturday talking aboutthe soil tempts. But at least I'm
keeping people up the data where thatis and how important that is. And
you guys know that as well.Of course, we growing degree days.
(04:32):
We've been posting that to keep peopleupdated as well. So you know,
just same old, same old,getting ready for when it finally breaks.
I don't know if you saw this. I meant to send this to you
before you and I came together.Did you see this new report about spotted
lantern fly and the new thing theytalk about integrated? Of course, the
integrated passway wait wait, I'm listeningto good vibrations. There you go?
(04:57):
Is that cool? Or what?You should be playing that right now?
I mean, did you not?Did that? Not? Well? Wait,
we better stop. We're doing ourshorthand thing. I just realized that,
yeah we are. My gosh,after all these months, we get
back together and we're doing shorthand talkand people are what are they talking about?
I interrupted? You go ahead,and I was going to say that
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it's the most thing somebody. Itwas rumored that the spotted lantern fly,
which came to us from Asia,obviously gravitate toward vibrations, and so Richard
do you know Richard Mankin, Idon't. I don't year when I read
that. Yeah, he's entomology tothe USDA. Anyway, he took it
(05:40):
from there and started doing some research. They did a laboratory study of the
nymphs and the adults, and theydo respond to the sixty cycle vibrations.
That's that's like what that thing youput on your head, right, yeah,
yeah, that's right. Yeah,yes, that's right. Yeah,
it's tuned just to that. Buthe said his comment was the rumor proved
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to be correct. They walked towardsthe source of the vibrations. So you
know, now they're saying, okay, so where do we take this from
here? Could it be a possibilityof a way of improving the controlling methods
for the spot and lantern fly,which, by the way, I just
I saw that butt of the article. I didn't realize, you know,
where we were as far as thecrop loss, But it looks like in
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Pennsylvania. Did you see that that'sforty five to one hundred percent loss of
wine grain crops like Chardonnay, hada couple others, and they said there's
applications to keep them under control.Had gone from four applications per season to
fourteen. I didn't see that thatsecond part. But do you know that
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stands to reason when you think aboutwhen you say, I mean I'm gonna
hold probably till next week to talkabout our other non native evasive you know
where I'm heading with this. Imean, I'm going to put it in
a box till next week. Somebodysaid, what's you going to talk about?
You think? And I said,box tree? Uh again, Well
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you know, okay, I justhave to say it. There are the
eternal optimists here, and that isyes, spotted lantern fly, box tree
moth. You know, they havethe potential to do great harm. Box
tree moths does have the potential tokill box with spotted lantern fly, as
you've just said, because it islike a giant aphid, so it does
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have the potential for causing damage.But on the bright side of these things,
they're not like em a lash boar. That's one thing that I've been
emphasizing when people email and call youwhen we talk about plant damage. Let's
start with you know with emal dashbourthat that kills ash tree, all kills
the tops of ash trees. Thesedon't do that, but we do have
(07:56):
to be aware that you know thatthey can harm spotted lantern fly. Like
I said, they it is likea giant aphid. It sucks sap from
the flow them. So that's wherewe see, you know, sugars moving
up and down you know the tree. And when I say it's like a
giant apaid, well, you know, you get enough aphids or soft scales.
(08:20):
You and I have talked about calicoscale many times. You get enough
of those on a tree and ifthe tree happens to be stressed, well
you you can be in trouble,right, I mean you'll start seeing some
some challenges. So Spotted Lantern Flyactually does like Naples quite a lot,
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and you're gonna have to I'm alittle rusty here, so I need to
hear a drum one minute. Okay, I just realized. I thought,
wait a second, what time isit? Normally I'm in Columbus today,
and I've been screwing up because youknow, this the first this the first
show each year, and you're notused to the studio and all all that
stuff. And I've been here amillion times, but you always just gotta
(09:03):
it's not you get a little bitout of sink in the order you get
get out of think yes, Itell you, no, it's not a
later, that's right, use thatmore. And you know we've joked a
bit, which is not unusual toeat up our time. No it's not.
I realized, Hey, this isthis is back This is just like
back to Uh. I got tosay back to normal. But that really
(09:26):
doesn't apply to us, does it. No? But you know what you
normals is setting on a dryer.By the way, Joe Strecker predicted that
you would take the first segment justto get back and you wouldn't talk about
anything until you heard the music atthe end of the second segment. But
you proved them wrong. There yougo, There you go. How much
does he owe you? Quite abit? All right? Quick, quick,
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Yardening here in the Garden with RonWilson, and the course is time you
asked for it, You've got it. He is back for the growing season.
Buggy Joe Boggs from ALSU Extension thatit is a pleasure, sir,
to have you back. By theway, Oh sir, listen to this.
This is a I'm looking over myshoulder. I'm thinking you're tired.
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There's somebody else on the line.There must be. You know, it
is great to be back, andit's great to be talking about right right
off the bat, talking about avery interesting insect behavior. You know.
This one thing about the winter,you know, is for you and I
both. I mean, it's thetime of the year when we do a
lot of teaching, right you know, we're going to programs, we're going
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to conferences and that sort of thing. So it's also a time of the
year when we have a chance tosort of sit down and think about things.
Right. You know, the audienceis probably wait, wait, think
where I'm heading in this direction.Once we start getting outside and looking for
things and all that again, itcan become so hectic. They just don't
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have time to contemplate what you're seeing. So spotted lantern fly, it's it's
this whole thing that they can communicatepotentially by by vibrations. Is it isn't
unique to spotted lantern fly. Sostarting with the order that they belong to,
it's hemiphtrons. So when we thinkof hemiptrons, we also think of
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things like tree hoppers. And we'vetalked about this before. You know,
there are different tree hoppers, thereare different plant hoppers that have already proven
to scientists that they communicate by vibrating. They vibrate wings, they sometimes vibrate
legs, and that sends a messageto a plant to tell another of their
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kind you know, something is happening. Could be you know, aggregations.
It could be the you know,I call it the party, you know,
the message, or could be formating. Either way, it's the
type of communication that we times overlookedbecause we know that insects communicate chemically.
We know that they send out differentwhat we would call pheromones that that also
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send the signal to you know,others of their kind that something's going to
happen. And we have aggregation pheromonesfor example, and we have mating pheromones,
but in the case of spotted lanternfly, it also may And I
was just looking at the paper,those scientific papers published on this and they
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didn't mention this. But something wrongthat we've we've seen with spotted lantern fly.
It's very common if you're just lookingat a group, you might see
one that that starts kind of shivering. It looks like that it's shivering.
It's it's it's moving very rapidly andmoving its wings, and no one has
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really put together that. I thatI'm aware of an explanation for well,
what is that? You know,what is that insect up to? What's
it doing? Uh? And it'sit really stands out. I even have
a short video on it that youknow, you could like seven or eight
sort of you know, group together, and here's one on the edge that
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suddenly starts vibrating its wings. Now, I'm not saying that I was witnessing
the sending of this signal of sixtysixty hurts. It caused me to come
over to the tree though, soyeah, you know, yeah, vibrations.
But here's where it gets You've gotto I mean, we had to
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you had to have the beach boys, right, you had to have heard
good vibrations in your head. Butsome of these insects, like what we
call sharpshooters, which are a typeof of of a type of plant hopper,
they can spread diseases. And so, for example, there's a sharpshooter
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that can spread diseases into grapes,a very serious disease as a matter of
fact, and those have been haveshown have been shown to communicate by vibrations.
And so if people really want tolearn more about this, and you
really dig down into the scientific paper, right at the very end, what's
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interesting the authors note that there's researchgoing on apparently as we speak, to
see if this vibration idea might bea way to suppress communication, you know,
in sharpshooters that can spread diseases andgrapes out in California. So there's
it's it's kind of more than youknow. This was kind of presented and
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you saw it too as an oddity. Is an interesting thing. But what
I think is fascinating when people makethese kinds of discoveries on insect communication is
that possibly they could be used ina very serious way, you know,
to try the insect into doing somethingthat we like walking into a trap.
I mean that would be you know, you got a little you know,
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something that's vibrating at sixty hertz,and and we can collect them that way
walking in the trap or doing somethingelse or avoiding a plant. You know,
maybe we'll discover that the vibration andcould be like with aphids, where
they send out a chemical to warnother aphids that something bad is happening.
Now, there's no evidence so farthat this you know, vibration is connected
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to anything like you know, predatoravoidance, but that could be. I
mean, you know, right now, speculation you know, is rightfully rampant
as far as what might this mean. So it is good to be back
because it's very difficult ron talking aboutall these things to myself. And I'm
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sure missus Bogs probably get a littletired of hearing some of this stuff too.
Oh yeah, she keeps She keptasking, you know, when when
are you gonna when when do yoube talking to Rod? I mean,
I can't take it anymore else justjust randomly call people on the phone and
start talking. Oh my goodness.But it is great to be back.
And man, you know, theseason is slowly unfolding once again. I'd
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rather have it slowly unfold and quicklyand then get cold again. So yeah,
I actually like these kinds of springbecause you know, we had this
happen. I need to go backand look and and and and maybe our
good buddy, you know, andand weather meteorologist Ron Roethis will have the
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year. But you know, ifyou know, I've talked about this before.
Several years ago, we had aMarch you know that was like it
was almost like June where that itgot so warm and everything just happened so
fast. The blooms came and wentvery quickly, and you know, before
we knew it, you know,things were happening that were way ahead of
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schedule. And I just have tobe honest, you know, I will
admit at my age, you know, I was hustling very quickly, which
isn't very healthy, right, youknow, you're gonna get this slow moving
April just kind of fits, doesn'tthat we can Yeah, it feels a
little bit better to get out hey, real quick. We got about two
minutes to go here. The otherthing I was going to check in with
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you on you know, we hadthe cold blast in twenty twenty two,
right before Christmas. Yeah, theycaused a lot of damage. And you
know, we think, I thinkmy personal opinion had caused damages on things
that we didn't really recognize. Imean like we saw it on evergreens,
We saw it on box, wesaw it on broad leaf evergreens, and
there were other deciduous plants that showedthat damage too. Are you seeing things
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now that you know you're looking backand saying wow? I wonder if and
you know last year, if youremember we were talking about tricolored beach.
Yeah, it didn't come out,you know, didn't he didn't have the
try color. The leaves were different, they looked funny. You know,
it was very unusual trying to waittill this spring to see these come back
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out, to see what's going tohappen. I just want to toss that
out. I didn't know if youhad started to see things that maybe we're
looking back. You know, yougot to think back a year and a
half ago. That's something you canshare with us to kick off next Saturday.
So I'm gonna give you all weekto think about it. And Harold
said, to tell you roll tiedbecause the days there spring game day and
they only have one win ahead ofOhio State. Oh no, it's great
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to be back, Ron, youhave a great league. Buggy Joe Boggs.
Like I said, you asked forit. He is back and he'll
be with us for spring, summerand a little bit of the fall season
as well as thanks all of ourcolors, Thanks our sponsors, Thanks of
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you do. Now do yourself afavor, get out there and plant a
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All the news and the views ofBrian Thomas. Monday morning at five on
fifty five krc D Talkstation, hereis your ninth first yardning forecast. Today.
We're gonna get off the cold startwith the high today at fifty eight
tonight clear thirty five. On Sunday, patreew frost in the morning, the
sixty three for the high. Cloudsare going to move in nighttime showers and
(00:21):
thunderstorms. And then on Monday partysunny seventy five degrees seven fifty five hundred.
Here fifty five KRC the Talkstation.Welcome back here in the garden with
Ron Wilson. You know the oldsaying be careful what you ask for,
because you just might get it.Well, you've all been asking for the
(00:44):
last three weeks. When's he comingback. Well, you asked for it,
you got it. Ladies and gentlemen, It's time for the buggy.
Joe bugs A poor mister Joe Buggsthat sis a Professor Commercial Order coach educated
for the Oapsate University Extension OSU Department, atomuse still the poster boy for the
(01:07):
o s U Extension, co creatorof Martha Coffee and for him his website,
b Y G L dot O,s U dot E d U ladies
and gentlemen. Mister common says,he called himself Buggy Joe buck Man.
What a good morning. How areyou there? They are? Wait a
(01:34):
second, wait a second. Whatwhat's that noise in the background. I
think that's the ratings crashing. Ithink that's what I hear. Everything that's
all apart radio is getting turned off. I keep talking. Everybody kept be
emailing me. P people kept beemailing me, even my own sister.
Even my own sister yesterday email said, hey, when is Buggy Joe coming
(01:56):
back? What do you at ourrating? I just said, our ratings
can't stand that kind of a hit. I just told people just be careful
what you wish for, because he'scoming faster than you think. A bad
penny, welcome back, but welcomeback. Oh it's good to be back.
And what a day man. WeIt is sunny and uh, I'm
(02:20):
pretending it's warm out there right,A little chilly, little frost on the
pumpkin this morning, A little bitchilly, but boy it is. It's
just a beautiful day. After theI heard you and Gary talking about all
the rain and the flooding and yeah, my neighbor next door all the hammering
he was doing and it's no afloatshme, he live just next door and he
(02:42):
oh does he? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're you're right, you're
right in the same line that thatGary and I are. And when the
fronts come through, you get himfirst, then Gary gets them after you
that I'm on the other side ofGary, So we all kind of get
that. Yeah, we're online,right, Yeah, well, you know,
sadly, of course, we hadsome pretty high wind damage and you
(03:04):
know, tornadoes and and of courseyou know, we're not the only people
in the listening you know area thatthat that were hit. But uh,
but thankfully we made it through andyou know, in their immediate surroundings.
But the flooding, though, thatwas pretty remarkable. I've you know,
listening to you all, I wasthinking about, you know, they never
(03:27):
seen that before, you know,right, and and how many you know,
my wife and I looked out theback of the house and you know,
there was a river between us andthe next property, and we were
just trying to gauge had we everseen that deep? Uh, it is
not an uncommon thing to see,you know what I just described. But
my point being is that now wekind of concluded that, No, that
(03:49):
was a little bit deeper. Imean, you know there were sailboats.
I mean we've never seen that,you know, hobbycats. Yeah, So
what has been going on on theRon Wilson front. Well, we're just
you know, waiting for things towarm up consistently and get it on.
(04:10):
Of course, kind of hold thereins back a little bit, you know,
with everybody as we try to creepthrough the ups and downs of the
cold and warms and all of thatand watching watching soil temperatures. People get
tired of me every Saturday talking aboutthe soil tempts. But at least I'm
keeping people up the data where thatis and how important that is. And
you guys know that as well.Of course, we growing degree days.
(04:32):
We've been posting that to keep peopleupdated as well. So you know,
just same old, same old,getting ready for when it finally breaks.
I don't know if you saw this. I meant to send this to you
before you and I came together.Did you see this new report about spotted
lantern fly and the new thing theytalk about integrated? Of course, the
integrated passway wait wait, I'm listeningto good vibrations. There you go?
(04:57):
Is that cool? Or what?You should be playing that right now?
I mean, did you not?Did that? Not? Well? Wait,
we better stop. We're doing ourshorthand thing. I just realized that,
yeah we are. My gosh,after all these months, we get
back together and we're doing shorthand talkand people are what are they talking about?
I interrupted? You go ahead,and I was going to say that
(05:18):
it's the most thing somebody. Itwas rumored that the spotted lantern fly,
which came to us from Asia,obviously gravitate toward vibrations, and so Richard
do you know Richard Mankin, Idon't. I don't year when I read
that. Yeah, he's entomology tothe USDA. Anyway, he took it
(05:40):
from there and started doing some research. They did a laboratory study of the
nymphs and the adults, and theydo respond to the sixty cycle vibrations.
That's that's like what that thing youput on your head, right, yeah,
yeah, that's right. Yeah,yes, that's right. Yeah,
it's tuned just to that. Buthe said his comment was the rumor proved
(06:02):
to be correct. They walked towardsthe source of the vibrations. So you
know, now they're saying, okay, so where do we take this from
here? Could it be a possibilityof a way of improving the controlling methods
for the spot and lantern fly,which, by the way, I just
I saw that butt of the article. I didn't realize, you know,
where we were as far as thecrop loss, But it looks like in
(06:24):
Pennsylvania. Did you see that that'sforty five to one hundred percent loss of
wine grain crops like Chardonnay, hada couple others, and they said there's
applications to keep them under control.Had gone from four applications per season to
fourteen. I didn't see that thatsecond part. But do you know that
(06:45):
stands to reason when you think aboutwhen you say, I mean I'm gonna
hold probably till next week to talkabout our other non native evasive you know
where I'm heading with this. Imean, I'm going to put it in
a box till next week. Somebodysaid, what's you going to talk about?
You think? And I said,box tree? Uh again, Well
(07:08):
you know, okay, I justhave to say it. There are the
eternal optimists here, and that isyes, spotted lantern fly, box tree
moth. You know, they havethe potential to do great harm. Box
tree moths does have the potential tokill box with spotted lantern fly, as
you've just said, because it islike a giant aphid, so it does
(07:30):
have the potential for causing damage.But on the bright side of these things,
they're not like em a lash boar. That's one thing that I've been
emphasizing when people email and call youwhen we talk about plant damage. Let's
start with you know with emal dashbourthat that kills ash tree, all kills
the tops of ash trees. Thesedon't do that, but we do have
(07:56):
to be aware that you know thatthey can harm spotted lantern fly. Like
I said, they it is likea giant aphid. It sucks sap from
the flow them. So that's wherewe see, you know, sugars moving
up and down you know the tree. And when I say it's like a
giant apaid, well, you know, you get enough aphids or soft scales.
(08:20):
You and I have talked about calicoscale many times. You get enough
of those on a tree and ifthe tree happens to be stressed, well
you you can be in trouble,right, I mean you'll start seeing some
some challenges. So Spotted Lantern Flyactually does like Naples quite a lot,
(08:41):
and you're gonna have to I'm alittle rusty here, so I need to
hear a drum one minute. Okay, I just realized. I thought,
wait a second, what time isit? Normally I'm in Columbus today,
and I've been screwing up because youknow, this the first this the first
show each year, and you're notused to the studio and all all that
stuff. And I've been here amillion times, but you always just gotta
(09:03):
it's not you get a little bitout of sink in the order you get
get out of think yes, Itell you, no, it's not a
later, that's right, use thatmore. And you know we've joked a
bit, which is not unusual toeat up our time. No it's not.
I realized, Hey, this isthis is back This is just like
back to Uh. I got tosay back to normal. But that really
(09:26):
doesn't apply to us, does it. No? But you know what you
normals is setting on a dryer.By the way, Joe Strecker predicted that
you would take the first segment justto get back and you wouldn't talk about
anything until you heard the music atthe end of the second segment. But
you proved them wrong. There yougo, There you go. How much
does he owe you? Quite abit? All right? Quick, quick,
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continue on with part two of theBuggy Joe Bob's report. You asked
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Yardening here in the Garden with RonWilson, and the course is time you
asked for it, You've got it. He is back for the growing season.
Buggy Joe Boggs from ALSU Extension thatit is a pleasure, sir,
to have you back. By theway, Oh sir, listen to this.
This is a I'm looking over myshoulder. I'm thinking you're tired.
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There's somebody else on the line.There must be. You know, it
is great to be back, andit's great to be talking about right right
off the bat, talking about avery interesting insect behavior. You know.
This one thing about the winter,you know, is for you and I
both. I mean, it's thetime of the year when we do a
lot of teaching, right you know, we're going to programs, we're going
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to conferences and that sort of thing. So it's also a time of the
year when we have a chance tosort of sit down and think about things.
Right. You know, the audienceis probably wait, wait, think
where I'm heading in this direction.Once we start getting outside and looking for
things and all that again, itcan become so hectic. They just don't
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have time to contemplate what you're seeing. So spotted lantern fly, it's it's
this whole thing that they can communicatepotentially by by vibrations. Is it isn't
unique to spotted lantern fly. Sostarting with the order that they belong to,
it's hemiphtrons. So when we thinkof hemiptrons, we also think of
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things like tree hoppers. And we'vetalked about this before. You know,
there are different tree hoppers, thereare different plant hoppers that have already proven
to scientists that they communicate by vibrating. They vibrate wings, they sometimes vibrate
legs, and that sends a messageto a plant to tell another of their
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kind you know, something is happening. Could be you know, aggregations.
It could be the you know,I call it the party, you know,
the message, or could be formating. Either way, it's the
type of communication that we times overlookedbecause we know that insects communicate chemically.
We know that they send out differentwhat we would call pheromones that that also
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send the signal to you know,others of their kind that something's going to
happen. And we have aggregation pheromonesfor example, and we have mating pheromones,
but in the case of spotted lanternfly, it also may And I
was just looking at the paper,those scientific papers published on this and they
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didn't mention this. But something wrongthat we've we've seen with spotted lantern fly.
It's very common if you're just lookingat a group, you might see
one that that starts kind of shivering. It looks like that it's shivering.
It's it's it's moving very rapidly andmoving its wings, and no one has
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really put together that. I thatI'm aware of an explanation for well,
what is that? You know,what is that insect up to? What's
it doing? Uh? And it'sit really stands out. I even have
a short video on it that youknow, you could like seven or eight
sort of you know, group together, and here's one on the edge that
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suddenly starts vibrating its wings. Now, I'm not saying that I was witnessing
the sending of this signal of sixtysixty hurts. It caused me to come
over to the tree though, soyeah, you know, yeah, vibrations.
But here's where it gets You've gotto I mean, we had to
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you had to have the beach boys, right, you had to have heard
good vibrations in your head. Butsome of these insects, like what we
call sharpshooters, which are a typeof of of a type of plant hopper,
they can spread diseases. And so, for example, there's a sharpshooter
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that can spread diseases into grapes,a very serious disease as a matter of
fact, and those have been haveshown have been shown to communicate by vibrations.
And so if people really want tolearn more about this, and you
really dig down into the scientific paper, right at the very end, what's
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interesting the authors note that there's researchgoing on apparently as we speak, to
see if this vibration idea might bea way to suppress communication, you know,
in sharpshooters that can spread diseases andgrapes out in California. So there's
it's it's kind of more than youknow. This was kind of presented and
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you saw it too as an oddity. Is an interesting thing. But what
I think is fascinating when people makethese kinds of discoveries on insect communication is
that possibly they could be used ina very serious way, you know,
to try the insect into doing somethingthat we like walking into a trap.
I mean that would be you know, you got a little you know,
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something that's vibrating at sixty hertz,and and we can collect them that way
walking in the trap or doing somethingelse or avoiding a plant. You know,
maybe we'll discover that the vibration andcould be like with aphids, where
they send out a chemical to warnother aphids that something bad is happening.
Now, there's no evidence so farthat this you know, vibration is connected
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to anything like you know, predatoravoidance, but that could be. I
mean, you know, right now, speculation you know, is rightfully rampant
as far as what might this mean. So it is good to be back
because it's very difficult ron talking aboutall these things to myself. And I'm
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sure missus Bogs probably get a littletired of hearing some of this stuff too.
Oh yeah, she keeps She keptasking, you know, when when
are you gonna when when do yoube talking to Rod? I mean,
I can't take it anymore else justjust randomly call people on the phone and
start talking. Oh my goodness.But it is great to be back.
And man, you know, theseason is slowly unfolding once again. I'd
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rather have it slowly unfold and quicklyand then get cold again. So yeah,
I actually like these kinds of springbecause you know, we had this
happen. I need to go backand look and and and and maybe our
good buddy, you know, andand weather meteorologist Ron Roethis will have the
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year. But you know, ifyou know, I've talked about this before.
Several years ago, we had aMarch you know that was like it
was almost like June where that itgot so warm and everything just happened so
fast. The blooms came and wentvery quickly, and you know, before
we knew it, you know,things were happening that were way ahead of
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schedule. And I just have tobe honest, you know, I will
admit at my age, you know, I was hustling very quickly, which
isn't very healthy, right, youknow, you're gonna get this slow moving
April just kind of fits, doesn'tthat we can Yeah, it feels a
little bit better to get out hey, real quick. We got about two
minutes to go here. The otherthing I was going to check in with
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you on you know, we hadthe cold blast in twenty twenty two,
right before Christmas. Yeah, theycaused a lot of damage. And you
know, we think, I thinkmy personal opinion had caused damages on things
that we didn't really recognize. Imean like we saw it on evergreens,
We saw it on box, wesaw it on broad leaf evergreens, and
there were other deciduous plants that showedthat damage too. Are you seeing things
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now that you know you're looking backand saying wow? I wonder if and
you know last year, if youremember we were talking about tricolored beach.
Yeah, it didn't come out,you know, didn't he didn't have the
try color. The leaves were different, they looked funny. You know,
it was very unusual trying to waittill this spring to see these come back
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out, to see what's going tohappen. I just want to toss that
out. I didn't know if youhad started to see things that maybe we're
looking back. You know, yougot to think back a year and a
half ago. That's something you canshare with us to kick off next Saturday.
So I'm gonna give you all weekto think about it. And Harold
said, to tell you roll tiedbecause the days there spring game day and
they only have one win ahead ofOhio State. Oh no, it's great
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to be back, Ron, youhave a great league. Buggy Joe Boggs.
Like I said, you asked forit. He is back and he'll
be with us for spring, summerand a little bit of the fall season
as well as thanks all of ourcolors, Thanks our sponsors, Thanks of
course with Danny glees and our producer, because without Danny Gleeson, none of
this stuff would happen. So Danny, thank you so much for all that
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you do. Now do yourself afavor, get out there and plant a
tree or two or three good gardeningquestions. Ron has the answers at one
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