Benefits of Injecting Conifers
In our line of work, we have to treat different kinds of trees, some of which are easier to inject than others. Conifers are famously difficult trees to inject, due
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Pests
Protecting Trees Against Pine Bark Beetle During Extreme Weather
Extreme weather events and rising summer temperatures across in the U.S. for the past several years has caused widespread plant and tree destruction. This destruction causes populations of pests like
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Caterpillar Crop Pests
Caterpillar Pests of Vines and Trees Caterpillars are the immature stage of moths and butterflies. Grape berry moth and the light brown apple moth are caterpillar pests of grape and
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Fall Treatment Round-Up
Summer is almost behind us and soon the leaves on the trees will be turning beautiful shades of yellow, orange and red. For those of us in the plant health
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Protecting Your Harvest
The actual definition of gardening: the practice of growing and cultivating plants for birds, rabbits, deer and insects to consume! The most confounding thing about growing plants is that the
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Protecting Ash Trees at Cornell Botanic Garden
On May 31st and June 1st, Arborjet | Ecologel donated Tree-äge G4 (4% emamectin benzoate) for the retreatment of ash trees being attacked by emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), a
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: When Bugs Go Wrong – Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
The hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) is an insect native to Japan. It was first detected in the U.S. in Virginia early in the 1950s and now covers the entire
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Black Locust – A Phenological Indicator Tree of Emerald Ash Borer and its Effects on Native Ash Trees
Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a native tree in the family Fabaceae, the legumes, which makes it a relative of peas and beans. Like those plants, it forms association with
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Joe’s Journal, Spring edition: Green Ash and Emerald Ash Borer
Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) is a native tree that occurs over much of the eastern and central US and into Canada and Nova Scotia. It has several distinct characteristics that
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The State of Spotted Lanternfly for 2022
Despite some unseasonably warm days throughout the country, November is about the time of year you’d expect spotted lanternfly (SLF, Lycorma delicatula) and other insects to begin dying off for
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