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The sycamore is a valuable tree for both bees and beekeepers. how to get rid of bed bugs Flowering quite early in the season, late April / early May it provides copious quantities of nectar and pollen whenever the weather is good enough to allow the bees to fly. The flowers hang downwards beneath how to get rid of bed bugs the canopy where they are protected from the rain. Sycamore honey is pale gold with a greenish tinge and pollen loads are a greenish grey. Click photo below for a close-up.
Otherwise, its rude health, profligate rate of reproduction and non-native status mean the sycamore tends to be scorned how to get rid of bed bugs as a weed tree species and ecological disaster area. Despite this the bees love it, so it is interesting enough for us beekeepers to take a closer how to get rid of bed bugs look…
The Great Maple, European Sycamore, Seiceamar, Acer pseudoplatanus how to get rid of bed bugs or just plain sycamore has its origins in the mountains of central / eastern Europe and western Asia. The name ‘sycamore’ is a second-hand one, taken from a tree common in Palestine and known as the fig-mulberry or Ficus sycomorus – from the Greek sykon meaning fig and moron meaning black mulberry. Our sycamore took the name when it was noticed that its leaves were like those of the fig-mulberry in shape.
The sycamore is a hardy, vigorous tree on any type of soil and is also tolerant of high winds, maritime conditions and pollution. Once established, it reproduces all too freely by the annual production of thousands and thousands of winged, wind-borne seeds. These characteristics have facilitated the rapid spread of sycamore throughout much of the rest of Europe and America how to get rid of bed bugs – to which it was introduced. It is uncertain when the sycamore reached this side of Europe. Some believe it was the Romans who took it to Britain, others argue that it didn’t arrive until the 13 th or 14 th century when it was probably introduced to Scotland from France. Either way it would have been brought to Ireland shortly how to get rid of bed bugs afterwards.
It seems that the sycamore was then largely ignored until the late 16 th century when it started to become popular – but only in parks and gardens as a specimen or ornamental tree. Later, it fell out of fashion and plantings became how to get rid of bed bugs more utilitarian, as shelter-belt trees in hill and in coastal areas when, along with their general wind-tolerance, it was realised that exposure to constantly windy conditions causes sycamores how to get rid of bed bugs to grow broader than they are tall, forming impressive, densely meshed crowns of strong angular branches – ideal for shredding high winds into less damaging zephyrs how to get rid of bed bugs and wafts.
The pollution tolerance of sycamores makes them a robust how to get rid of bed bugs street tree but in summer, when they play host to millions of aphids, the dripping of honeydew becomes an irritant to the owners of parked how to get rid of bed bugs cars and can turn the leaves and underlying pavements black and sticky. The annual production of millions of seeds which turn up in gutters and gardens is a further vexation. Unusually flamingo pink sycamore seeds (2014) in Ireland. Click photo for a better look.
Last year (2014) was a mast year and the Sycamores how to get rid of bed bugs here in Ireland set vast quantities of seeds, the wings of which were unusually pink. It seemed to me that the wings were much longer how to get rid of bed bugs and broader than usual. Also, that year there were over 30 deaths of horses from eating sycamore seeds and owners were warned not to allow their animals to overgraze pastures where sycamores were present. It was probably how to get rid of bed bugs due to the huge loads of seeds or you have to wonder if that unusual flamingo pink pigmentation had anything to do with it?
Given the above you may be left wondering why anyone would plant this tree as an ornament but it does have redeeming features: a good specimen has a dense, broad-domed, billowing crown of dark green leaves popular with nesting rooks and other birds; in regions of pristine air quality the branches and twigs can become festooned with a wide variety of epiphytic lichens; the bark of a mature sycamore has an attractive pinkish tinge and interesting platey texture; at maturity it can be a tree of magnificent proportions with a massive, possibly buttressed trunk. The largest measured sycamore in the Republic of Ireland is one at Shelton Abbey near Arklow, Co.Wicklow which has reached a whopping 97ft in height on a suitably sturdy trunk with a 20ft girth.
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