Change the World Wednesday – 13th Aug

The two trees in memory of loved pets

Sad news first.

Clorinha met her demise under the wheels of a car last Wednesday evening in front of the botequim (bar next door) while I was at work.

She used to take dreadful risks and I’m afraid that was life #9.

She is interred in the praça where she played, next to Herbie the neighbours Fox Terrier who was poisoned a year ago. Herbie has a palm tree, Clorinha has a guava tree; she liked guava, as they fell from the tree she would bat them around the yard.

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My new chilli bushes are doing well. One has lots of red chillies ready for picking.

Puncutated with red

And the other with lots of little white flowers.

Punctuated with white

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On with this week’s CTWW.

This week it’s about trees and invasive bugs.

This week take 10 minutes to inspect trees on your property, in the area, on a hike, etc. Here’s how: Read the original post for the points

 

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Here are two more activities to help prevent ALB infestation:

• If you are planning to build a fire (campfire, etc.), use only wood from local sources. Do not carry it with you from other areas (for example, from home to a campsite out of state).
• If you are landscaping, plant a wide variety of trees.

OR …

If your area is not threatened by ALB, give your trees a health “check up”. Click HERE for a list of things to consider.

We don’t have this ALB beetle here, or at least I don’t.

I give all my plants, trees, bushes, etc the once over every day.

I believe it’s a stink bug

I do have this little beast. He’s mainly in the tomatoes, but sometimes appears in my acerola (West Indian cherry) bush as well.

My tomatoes also get aphids; and my passion fruit vine leave suffer from the caterpillar of the gulf frutillery butterfly.

They are my only regular pests.

So I keep a daily check on the health on my trees and investigate anything abnormal.