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You’ll Never Guess What Will Happen When You Hang a Pine Cone in Your Garden
Pine cones are made of scales that naturally open and close in response to moisture in the air. When the air is dry, the ...
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In the Wildfire’s Wake, Focus Continues on Prescribed Burns
By the time the danger had passed the morning after fire ripped through 600 acres of the Central Pine Barrens in Westhampton ...
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Scientists develop pine cone-inspired technology with revolutionary capabilities — here's how it could transform future buildings
This opening and closing mechanism is found in pine cones, which utilize this capability for seed dispersal. After over a year of testing, the Solar Gate was installed on the livMatS Biomimetic ...
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Within-Crown Distribution of Cone and Seed Insect Damage to Slash Pine Flowers, Conelets, and Cones
The numbers of female strobili attacked by the slash pine flower thrips ... of Laspeyresia larvae per cone, did not vary significantly between levels or among quadrants. The proportion of full, empty, ...
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Figure caption, Calum and Neil are paid to retrieve pine-cones They must collect pine-cone seed, so that when the forest is cut down for the war effort, the trees can be replanted. Times are hard ...