Invasives in Your Woodland: Callery Pear (updated 2025)
… Callerys with Bartletts would make for a blight-resistant tree. The resulting trees were studied for thirty years at a … Forest Service Image Gallery: Callery Pear Callery pear tree. Note the characteristic V-crotch branch structure. Many …
Twig Girdlers and Twig Pruners on Trees
… beetle that attacks hickory, honeylocust, persimmon, elm, oak, hackberry, poplar, dogwood, linden, and flowering … pruners are also native longhorned beetles. They attack oak, hickory, ash, maple, honeylocust, elm, linden, sweetgum, …
Branching Out - Winter 2024
… feature, "Native Trees of Maryland," looks at the state tree: the white oak. "Invasives in Your Woodlands" looks at … Educator The white oak is, without a doubt, a remarkable tree species. The tree is truly an impressive specimen where older examples are …
Landscape Management Basics
… help interpreting the results. Fertilize, only as needed, to maintain vigor. Avoid over-fertilizing plants, as it can … Use drip irrigation and soaker hoses where practical. Remove or mow weeds Weeds rob plants of moisture and … pruning through hoeing and tilling. Don’t work with plants when foliage or soil is wet. Use row covers to prevent pest …
Cucumber Beetles: Spotted or Striped on Vegetables
… pumpkin, muskmelon) legumes, tomato, ornamentals, and fruits, plus many other weeds and cultivated plants. Striped: … apple, pear, green beans, okra, eggplant, and potato, plus tree and shrub blossoms. Signs/symptoms Larvae eat roots and … seedlings for larvae. Inspect chewed leaves, petals, and fruits for adults (especially leaf and fruit undersides …
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) Part 1
… In Asia, BMSB is known to attack high-value crops, such as tree fruit. BMSB has spread and become a pest of homes and more recently fruits and vegetables in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West … BMSB is a “polyphagous” pest whose host range includes tree fruit, ornamentals, hardwood trees, and cultivated crops …
Common Stink Bugs of the Mid-Atlantic - Hemiptera: Pentatomidae
… October 23, 2024 By Gerald (Jerry) Brust Common Stink Bugs of the Mid-Atlantic Hemiptera: Pentatomidae Plant feeding (phytophagous) stink bugs: Green stink bug: Acrosternum hilare Brown stink bug: … Marmorated stink bug: Halyomorpha halys Predatory stink bugs: Spined Soldier bug: Podisus maculiventris Two-spotted …
Leaf Key to Common Trees in Maryland (Extension Bulletin #238)
Fireblight Updates – 2024
… Dr. Christopher S. Walsh Fireblight Updates – 2024 Apple tree with fireblight - Photo credit: Chris Walsh This year’s …
Branching Out - Winter 2021
… of the red fox in the Woodland Wildlife Spotlight , and Tree-of-heaven in Invasives in Your Woodland, as well as … the health of your woodlands, and about a first for Tree Farm Inspectors in Maryland. Subscribe to Branching Out … and a Marylander has been chosen as the 2021National Tree Farm Inspector of the Year. Learn more >> Woodland …