#sycamore

2025-07-02

Today's #MothOfTheDay is

MAPLE PROMINENT
ptilodon cucullina

As its name suggests, its larvae live on Field Maple and Sycamore. We have a #Sycamore next door, so I get MANY moth types for whom this is their foodplant.

A wood mimic, it tries to resemble a piece of bark or wood chipping to avoid detection.

#moths #moth #mothsandbutterflies #butterflies #MothsMatter #nature #wildlife #britishwildlife #lepidoptera #entomology #insect #cute #garden #summer #conservation #biodiversity #alttext

Side on shot of a 2cm moth on a wooden table.  It faces left. It has a short hair/bristly appearance.  It is almost shoe shaped being narrow at the head and then rising along the top line to the back wing which then curves round in a convex arc to the straight bottom edge running along the table back to its head.  It resembles a bark chipping.  It is primarily a dark woody brown like dark teak. It has a pale, more light oak patch near its front legs. It has silvery white patches near its convex back wing edge.  Its top edge has two distinct tufts, one larger mohican like over its head and then a dark, almost black very small tuft halfway along.
GaiaCrisisPhilphilcolbourn@mas.to
2025-06-25

Tree
Sycamore
Carsington Water, Derbyshire
October 2023

#trees #treesofmastodon #sycamore #CarsingtonWater #Derbyshire #UK

A large tree in full leaf with several large serpentine branches standing at the edge of a green field of grass with a post and rail wood fence. A tall, thick hedge runs along the left hand side of the meadow. Beyond the field, the water of Carsington Water reservoir is just visible through the lower branches of the tree. Water and sky are a uniform blue-grey
2025-05-14

#Sunrise #Iowa #Sycamore

Pastel sky seen through young sycamore leaves — 10 minutes before sunrise.

The cloudless sky before sunrise.  Yellow-tan on the horizon changing to soft lavender-blue above.  Seen through the gaps between the small, young sycamore leaves.
2025-05-13
For #thicktrunktuesday, a tree wearing camo

#tree #baum #sycamore
2025-05-09

🪷 BREAKING NEWS: Two men who embarked on a “moronic mission” to fell the #Sycamore Gap tree with a chainsaw have been found guilty of “mindless” criminal damage. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, cut down the cherished tree next to Hadrian’s Wall, 28 September 2023. 🪷

2025-04-29

Gooooooooooooooood Morning Canada!

Hey, this is not a test…this is rock n’roll…time to rock it from the Yukon to the CN Tower…is that me or does that sound like an Elvis Presley movie?…if you’re lookin’ for trouble, you’ve come to the right place…eh…is it a little too early for being that loud…eh…too late…it’s O six hundred what’s the O stand for? O my god it’s Carney…

Thank you #Canada.

Canada gets Carney
US gets carnage!

No maples here so here’s a #sycamore, #sunshine and #birdsong.

Nick FergusonNickF@toot.wales
2025-04-21
Sycamore trees starting to open leaves, low white cloud bottom half, blue sky top half behind the 2 trees.
2025-04-16

TFW the monkeys are stomping around again.
The great horned owls have taken over last year’s red-tailed hawk nest! Chicks may have hatched since they seem to be standing on the nest sometimes instead of constantly brooding. They’ve never nested close by before and it’s been SO DAMN COOL. Hoo-hooing most nights for MONTHS <3
#birds #BirdsOfPrey #owl #GreatHornedOwl #UrbanWildlife #Indiana #Midwest #photo #photography #PhotographersOfMastodon #NativePlants #Sycamore #Cottonwood

An owl nest against an overcast sky, fairly small in frame. A well camouflaged owl is peering over the edge of the nest, its silhouette only made obvious by its prominent ear tufts. The nest is framed naturally by tree trunks, dark brown cottonwood bark and mottled white-grey American sycamore bark. A few branches are just beginning to leaf out.
2025-04-15

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Sycamore #Cats #Baseball #Iowa

This tree was planted 31 years ago as a 3-foot bareroot sapling. My son and I used to play catch beside it. Later, I would throw pop flies over the tree. Now, there's no room for playing catch...

Edit: Corrected date of old photo. It was the year 2000. My son -- 10 years old -- had asked the barber for an NBA haircut (probably a fade, but he got a bowl cut).

A tall, graceful leafless tree with mottled bark (mostly white bark toward the top).  The tree is being illuminated from the right (west).  Seen against a clear blue sky.  The tree is approximately 75 feet tall (23 m.).From May of 2000. An old snapshot on film.  On the right is the young sycamore tree (6 years old).  Two youngsters are in the foreground.  A teenage girl (neighbor), dressed in white, holds a large, drooping white cat (Dale the cat).  A younger boy (son) has his arms above his head.  On his left hand is a baseball glove with a baseball in the palm.
Newz.Wikinewz_wiki
2025-03-08

Goes Incognito: A $23.7 Billion Game of Hide and Seek with Partners

newz.wiki/fiscal-follies/walgr

2025-02-28

Had to stop to photograph these old pollarded #sycamore #trees while out assessing timbers in a farm building yesterday, in rural #Stirlingshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This tree species was a favourite for planting around farms and estates in the Improvement Era, because Sycamore grows so fast here in Scotland.

It was usually called the Scottish Plane in 18th/19th century records of planting.

Pollarding was probably done to produce useful pole sized timber but the trees also provided shelter and ornament.

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