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The Blob: The answer lies in the surrounding ground litter. Foothills Palo Verde leaf remnants. Look up and what do you find? A wound inflicted with a sharp object. Bypass pruning shears, pruning saw? Then someone tried to stop the oozing with a layer of black pruning wound sealer. It was a bad time of the year to prune....drip, drip, drip. Now over time would that turn into a stalactite or a stalagmite? Gold Dust: Gil Grissom would suggest you send a sample to former lab rat Greg Sanders. Greg might ask if someone had a sinus problem. This stuff is totally out of it's environment sitting on a white sheet of paper. Interesting though, it's similar in color to The Blob above. It's sappy all right. Dried sap of a prostrate acacia that gathered on the end of a pruned branch. Hit it with a hammer and you got yourself pieces of hardened sap. Is it amber yet? Give it a few million years. Blood Spatter: Let Nick Stokes figure this one. Nose bleed? Close. Slow drip like the wounds above. This time it was self inflicted. Probably from growing pains or even wind damage which produced a slight crack in the bark of a mesquite tree. Drip, drip, drip. This is when a lot of people begin to wonder if their mesquite trees have a disease. Cut Artery: Warrick Brown's turn. Reminds me of the losers in the casinos. Once you start, you can't seem to stop the flow. But in the casino you do it to yourself unable to walk away from the table. This gusher was inflicted by someone. Yep, more tree pruning. This time a mesquite limb was removed with a bow saw. Big cut, big wound. Seemed fine at first, then the sap began to flow. Hope the tree didn't feel a thing as it bled to death. Swimmers: Ms. Catherine Willows seems to understand these things. Lets get some DNA. Certainly looks like little tails on those swimmers. Not this time Catherine. We're out of the sheets and into the plants. Those tails are supports. A fine line for survival. When the eggs at the end of the strands hatch, the newborns are hungry little buggers. That little strand keeps them from eating their brothers and sisters. Lacewings are great little predators in the garden. Body Part: Ms. Sidle's turn to step into the lab. It's not a cotton ball. I'm guessing there's something under that mass of ick. People are disgusting. It could be something eating a rabbit dropping. Well Sara, I don't know the answer. All I know is if I had a lot of this stuff in my garden, I'd move. Gil Grissom wants to know what we all learned from these crime scene photos. Well, sir, I think people need to learn when and how to prune trees. I think we're all good eggs until proven otherwise. I think it's wise not to touch, taste or smell things if we don't know what they are. According to Grissom those are all good answers but the most important thing we should have learned: Don't park your car under sap oozing trees with birds in them because the results might just bug you. (2005) |
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