# Tree poop

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-poop/104725>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 20, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-poop/104725 "2002-04-20T22:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-poop/104725/1 "2002-04-20T22:31:05Z")

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Re: [Plant excrement](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020419.html)

It’s not too much of a stretch to consider autumn leafs “tree poop”, considering that all spring and summer they “ejaculate” their green & yellow dusty sperm (aka pollen) all over the place. :D:D:D

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tree-poop/104725/2 "2002-04-23T00:16:02Z")

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Some folks who park their cars under trees believe the trees have pooped on the cars. That sticky stuff, though, is not tree sap. It’s aphid poop. Ants carry the aphid larvae up into the trees, and they spend the summer harvesting the aphid poop. The aphids don’t poop on cue, though, and some of it falls on your car.