Daily Calendar for Monday, October 28, 2024
Question of the Day
The trees in our New Hampshire town are covered with ugly cocoonlike things that look as if they’re destroying the foliage. What are these?
Most likely you’re seeing the webs of fall webworms. These can appear from late July through October. The caterpillars are greenish yellow with lots of hair and black dots, and they feed on leaves. As feeding continues, their silken webs enlarge to cover the areas they plan to eat. This can indeed make it look as if the tree is being destroyed. Insecticides can control the worms, but each web must be penetrated for success. Infected branches also can be removed and the caterpillar webs destroyed. Bad as the webs may look, however, the damage they cause is usually minimal, and most leaves will return the following spring.
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Died
- John Locke (philosopher) β
- Abigail Adams (U.S. First Lady) β
- Red Auerbach (basketball coach) β
- Porter Wagoner (country music singer) β
- Matthew Perry (actor) β
Born
- Francis Bacon (painter) β
- Dr. Jonas Salk (discovered polio vaccine) β
- Cleo Laine (singer) β
- Joan Plowright (actress) β
- Charlie Daniels (musician) β
- Lenny Wilkens (basketball player, coach) β
- Jane Alexander (actress) β
- Dennis Franz (actor) β
- Bill Gates (Microsoft founder) β
- Lauren Holly (actress) β
- Jami Gertz (actress) β
- Julia Roberts (actress) β
- Brad Paisley (country singer) β
- Joaquin Phoenix (actor) β
- Stephen Nedoroscik (Olympic gymnast ) β
Events
- Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba and claimed it for Spainβ
- Harvard College founded in Massachusettsβ
- The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in the New York Harborβ
- The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was dedicated by President Clevelandβ
- St. Louis police became the first in the U.S. to use fingerprintingβ
- The Jack Benny Show made its television debutβ
- Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literatureβ
- An X17.2 solar flare occurred that, at the time, was the third most powerful ever recordedβ
- The Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies to win the World Seriesβ
- Mike Lowell of the Boston Red Sox was named World Series MVPβ
Weather
- Lander, Wyoming, received 27 inches of snowβ
- The temperature at Big Piney, Wyoming, plunged to -15 degrees Fβ
- The Georgia mountains received five inches of snowβ
- Cyclone 05B in the Indian Ocean became a Category 5β