So I was recently sitting under a pine tree reading a book when I occasionally felt a very light and small droplet of what felt like water land on me. It was a bright and sunny day and I would feel a droplet every 30 seconds or so. The size was like something you’d get during a mist and wasn’t sticky like sap
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In the middle of the day trees and especially pine trees do a lot of photosynthesis, this of course requires a lot of sunlight, but it also requires a lot of CO2. To make sure the needles are getting enough CO2 to the chloroplasts the stomata need to be as wide open as possible, now normally these aren’t open wide because the pine needles are trying to conserve water and while CO2 can enter, water can also exit. https://youtu.be/xvj2i5F1U54
By any chance are you experiencing a cicada surge? I learned the hard way this year that cicada’s apparently pee a lot…many a golden moment for me during this year’s brood. Could be the same thing. 🙂
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