![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Discover and free download excellent Background. Indians and early settlers often boiled the moss or laid it on a rack over a smoky fire (making sure it didn't catch fire!) to kill or remove the bugs. Image Size (px) : 6000 4000 Number : 501191827 Category : Nature File size : 22 MB File format : JPG. Before Spanish moss can be used by humans it must be treated to remove the bugs. Be sure to mention that Spanish moss has tiny bugs that live on it called chiggers or red bugs that cause an uncomfortable itch if they get on your skin. Get Blue grey shield moss on a tree photos and images from Picfair. If your class visits Kingsley Plantation, have your students look for Spanish moss in the trees. Over the years the name took on what some people thought to be a more sophisticated name, Spanish moss. When the French arrived in what we call America, they asked the same question of the Native Americans, and the natives replied that it was "tree hair," or "Itla-okla." The French used their own imaginations and called it Spanish Beard, because it reminded them of the long black beards of the earlier Spanish explorers. Students will identify uses of Spanish moss from the time of the Timucua Indians to the present. Distribution: Found on every continent except Antarctica. John's River have used Spanish Moss is many ways. Scientific name: Hypnum cupressiforme Type: Pleurocarpous Color: Dark green to brown. Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade Subject: Literacy and Language Arts,Science Tree Nature Landscape painting Leaf, Forest trees, orange and black butterly, landscape, branch, poster png 1000x1600px. ![]()
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