What are these crazy looking purple boxes dangling from trees? They are cropping up everywhere. I first spotted the triangular boxy affair hanging from a tree on Buffalo Road in a wooded area. Is this some new fangled bee trap? Or a new way to address some pest infestation that is destroying a particular type of tree, like the old Dutch Elm disease thing?
Maybe it serves to hide food from the bears, but no, there isn't enough room inside to store any amount of edible goodies. I have to ask, why purple? They neither stand out from the green of the forest nor are camouflaged.
OK, all you outdoors types. I am sure some sportsman or environmentalist somewhere could shed light on these elusive purple tree hangers. Please fill me in. What on earth are these plate sized purple things? Do tell.
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The hanging purple prisms are intended to help USDA and state officials spot any new infestation of the Emerald Ash Borer, a pesky little beetle that munches on Ash leaves, but worse, lays larva in the Ash bark, which bores into the wood, disrupting a trees circulation system, eventually killing the tree.
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