Q: I have a palm tree that is starting to shed its outer layer. It looks terrible. We were told about 10 years ago not to skin palm trees because of borers. Is this correct? A: I am not sure which ...

Grass and vegetation against the trunk of a stone fruit tree provides a humid and secluded place for female borer moths to lay their eggs. Grass against a trunk also increases the likelihood of string ...

Common tree pests fall into three main categories: defoliators such as tent caterpillars that eat leaves, borers like emerald ash borer that attack the wood of the tree, and sap suckers like scale ...

Ash trees are dead or dying because of the little iridescent green beetle The emerald ash borer's small size – no bigger than a cooked grain of rice – belies its destructive power. The beetle’s ...

Unless you are intent on making your own maple syrup, you probably haven't given tree sap much thought. So, let's take a deeper dive into a tree's 'blood' or sap and the normal flow in the fall for ...

Q: We live on 6.5 acres and have lost about a dozen oak trees in the past year. I don’t know why. Bark just falls off their trunks. I see small holes in the wood of the trunks. One Texas A&M Extension ...

In the year since the emerald ash borer was detected in Oregon, questions have been pouring in about what to do if an ash tree becomes infested and is killed by the invasive beetle. Currently, the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – When the emerald ash borer was first found in Forest Grove in June 2022, the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon Department of Agriculture took the discovery very ...

We have a purple plum tree that has given us very tasty plums for a number of years. This year, however, its branches are burdened down with hundreds of plums that won't ripen. The plums are various ...

FARGO — A small metallic green pest known for killing hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America has made its way to North Dakota. But Fargo and Moorhead have been preparing for the ...

Q: We have four aspens that were planted in the last two to three years. One of the trees has sap damage in a number of areas. It has leafed out and looks healthy otherwise. The damage looks like a ...