Rust Diseases
Rust diseases are pathogens with an interesting inoculation strategy. These fungal diseases require 2 hosts to complete their lifecycle. The first host are eastern red cedars (actually in the juniper [...]
Rust diseases are pathogens with an interesting inoculation strategy. These fungal diseases require 2 hosts to complete their lifecycle. The first host are eastern red cedars (actually in the juniper [...]
This past week we checked out the Trees SC Arborist workshop in Columbia, SC. We had a chance to listen to several great speakers, and learn about several different tree [...]
Eriophyid mites are microscopic creeps that like to feed on the foliage of your trees and shrubs. These little mites (different than spidermite) can distort the foilage of species like [...]
Fire blight is a bacterial disease that most often effects apple, pear, and hawthorn species. The disease usually begins at the flowers, and moves its way into the branches. Symptoms [...]
The flat headed apple tree borer is groddy cambium feeding creep. Other than apples, this creep will affect young maple trees. While mainly a problem in the nursery, this boring [...]
The evening of January 6th through the morning of January 8th will be exceptionally cold for the Charlotte Metro Area. Most of the greater Charlotte are falls within the zone [...]
The female cankerworm moth has been spotted in multiple traps throughout the Charlotte Metro Area. The adults hatch over the course of weeks, so if you haven’t banded your trees [...]
Hemlock woolly adelgid is a destructive creep of eastern region US hemlock species. This creep, first imported from Asia in the 1920’s, feeds on starch reserves at the base of [...]
With winter fast approaching, many of our resident creeps will be taking it easy until spring. One that we may still see creeping around from time to time is the [...]
Indian wax scale is a soft scale creep usually found in warmer areas of the country, but has been recently been reported as far north as Southern New Jersey. This [...]