Researchers have focused on cyanide naturally occurring in wild cherry tree leaves and Eastern tent caterpillars as possible causes for the illness, known as Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome.
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There was time to sit on the porch, time to lie back in his hammock and watch the way the birds got drunk on the fermented berries from his wild cherry tree.
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Black or wild cherry trees, the caterpillar's habitat and food of choice, can produce cyanide-like compounds that turn can into the poison in the caterpillar's gut.
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Meanwhile, University of Kentucky researchers are testing the theory that huge numbers of tent caterpillars feasted on wild cherry tree leaves and then somehow spread the leaves'poison _ cyanide _ to horses.
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On a visit to Berlin, he gave Schroeder photos of the grave under a wild cherry tree in an Orthodox cemetery in Ceanu Mare, 375 kilometers ( 235 miles ) northwest of Bucharest.
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The brick was fired in a nearby kiln, and the ornate wooden interior was derived from standing oak and wild cherry trees in the neighborhood and the walnut trees that originally surrounded the house.
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Everett recalled also the Johns'woods " with wild cherry trees in blossom, and . . . a model with flying red hair, clad in white, being chased in and out of the trees by nude children ".
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One early record in Latin is year 1317 in an encyclopedia by Matthaeus Silvaticus who wrote that the " " mahaleb " " is the kernel seed of the fruit of both domesticated and wild cherry trees in Arabic countries.
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Wild cherry trees have been identified on several farms where affected mares had grazed, but researchers still do not know if there is a one-to-one correlation between the presence of cherry trees and caterpillars and incidence of the syndrome, Craycraft said.
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The benefit of waiting is that I now know enough to leave the wild cherry trees alone ( their fruit lures birds away from my blueberries ), and to do nothing more to the sumac thicket than cut the wild brambles that threaten to obscure my view of it.
