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  • Sustainable Gardening: Solutions to Climate Change

    … in Our Changing Climate  introduces the many benefits of tree planting and provides tips for selecting trees. Use … your garden also will support  pollinators and beneficial insects that provide essential services like pest management …

  • Invasive Species

    … invasive species? Learn how to identify invasive plants, insects, and diseases and how to manage them in the … Herbaceous Plant Control Invasive Shrub Control Invasive Tree Control Invasive Vine and Groundcover Control (PDF)  … of Connecticut) Other invasive organisms Invasive Insects Invasive Diseases Invasive Jumping Worms Maryland …

  • Evergreen Foliage Yellowing

    … needle yellowing occurs towards the interior of the tree. It may occur all at once and it could be quite … very dramatic Fall color and needle drop of bald cypress tree Related information What Causes Trees and Shrubs to Die? …

  • Round Two: Multi-Colored Asian Ladybeetle (MALB) Management For Grape Growers

    … but instead will infest fruit previously damaged by other insects, pathogens, rots, birds, wasps. Monitoring should … is limited.   Ladybeetles are efficient predators of pest insects for the majority of the growing season, and most … azadirechtin, an organic insecticide derived from the neem tree) also has repellent and “knockdown” activity that …

  • How to Use the Pest Predictive Calendar

    … Using the Pest Predictive Calendar When Monitoring for Insects on Woody Plants Beginning in early spring, the Pest … the sequential phenological events of plants and pest insects and mites, and the cumulative growing degree days … with clearwing borers such as lilac borer or lesser peach tree borer this means 1st adult emergence and 10 to 14 days …

  • Scientists Flood Forest Patches to Study Impacts of Storms: Researchers look for tipping point in creation of “ghost forests”

    … Scientist Anya Hopple looks at a probe inserted into a tree in a forested tract at the Smithsonian Environmental … dioxide the trees absorb or emit through their bark. Some tree trunks are also fitted with paired sets of needles, … areas, how to identify and control invasive plants and insects, and about news and regional online and in-person …

  • Beginning Fruit Producer Resources

    … monitoring, phenology, production timeline, and more.  Tree Fruits: Organic Production Overview - ATTRA National … List  - includes many guides for the organic production of tree and small fruit (There is a cost for some publications): … culture, nutrition, spraying, pesticides, storage, weeds, insects, diseases and more. Ben Beale, University of Maryland …

  • Dogwood Anthracnose

    … wood.  If the dieback reaches the main trunk the entire tree can be killed. To distinguish this disease from other … that will be washed away by rain or dew, or spread by insects to healthy leaves and neighboring trees. The disease …

  • Plants for Mixed Privacy Screens

    … are provided in the list below. Whether your goal is to plant a screen to create privacy, reduce noise, or block an … If you have a screen consisting of just one kind of plant and a problem occurs, you risk losing the investment … A mixed planting that consists of a variety of different plant species provides some assurance that if one type of …

  • Weevils on Trees and Shrubs