The first 5 individuals to email RITree at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the correct answers to the following five questions will win a free copy of the 46 page publication 2011 Champion Tree of Rhode Island.  

The quiz will actually test your knowledge of conifers.  All of the questions are part and parcel of the "themes" discussed at the "Knowing Your Trees" series of plant identification workshops hosted by RITree during the year.  The last Conifer Workshop was held in October 2011 at the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in North Providence, RI.  The 2012 series of three plant id workshops will start again in February 2012.  The first workshop will provide instruction on Plant Ornamentals (i.e. Cherry, Dogwood, Magnolia, Viburnum, Hydrangea, etc.,). 

Here are the 5 questions, good luck.

Want fall foliage color, don't blame the trees, blame the temperature!

To Subordinate or Not To.....

I witnessed the first adult male winter moths (Operophtera brumata) on my white panel screen back door over the Thanksgiving holiday. They were there two nights in a row obviously attracted to the outdoor security light that I leave on in the early evening. The male moths are light brown to tan in color and all four wings are fringed with small elongate scales that give the hind margins a hairy or fringed appearance (see photo 1). The male moths emerge (the adult stage of winter moth) from the soil usually in late November and may be active into January whenever the air temperatures are mild (usually above freezing).