Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:08:45 -0400
From: Lynn Hicks
Subject: mystery noise
We have noticed for a week or so a crackling kind of noise as we walk through the woods in the evening. It really sounds a lot like a gentle rain on the leaves. I then noticed, walking in the same area in the daytime, eaten leaves on the ground, and looking up, eaten leaves on the trees, but only maple trees. LOTS of eaten, torn up leaves. I looked hard and didn’t see any insect, worm, locust, etc. Does anyone (Al Cooke?) know what this is? And are we in for a forest devastation by some 7 year locust or something?