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Photo of the Week
Maple anthracnose, caused by several different fungi, are quite rampant this year due to cooler temps and frequent rains.
Author Archives: Jen Llewellyn
Time To Prune Boxwood and Eastern White Cedar
Remember all those yellow spots on boxwood leaves we had this spring? These were the feeding sites of the overwintering larvae of boxwood leafminer (Monarthropalpus buxi, M. flavus).
IPM This Week – July 11
Click HERE for the AUDIO version of this blog post. Frequent precipitation events continue to shower outdoor ornamentals with too much love. Leaf diseases are rampant, making plants … Continue reading
Hay Hay We’re the……Scarab Beetles!
Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) adults are starting to take flight in southern Ontario!
Posted in Insects, IPM
Tagged european chafer, japanese beetle, Jen Llewellyn, onnurserycrops
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Pesky Pests Running Among Us
One of the most filthiest scale insect pests known to horticulturalists, the Euonymus scale (Unaspis euonymi) is a tiny little armored scale that covets evergreen Euonymus fortunei in the garden or landscape. Adult females have a dark cover that is wider at the posterior end, sea-shell in appearance with white margins. The smaller males have […]
Posted in Insects, IPM, landscape, Nursery Production
Tagged bugfinder, dave cheung, Jen Llewellyn, onnurserycrops
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Crab-apples looking…..rough?
Yes the exceptionally cold, wet, cloudy spring has been particularly supportive of fungal and bacterial diseases during leaf emergence this year. And our ornamental crab-apples are paying the price with thinning canopies and dieback. Click HERE for the AUDIO … Continue reading
Posted in Diseases, Weather
Tagged apple scab, fireblight, Jen Llewellyn, mike celetti, onnurserycrops
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Injectable Solutions for Landscape Trees
The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) are in full bloom as this is the phenology indicator species for the emergence of emerald ash borer adults.
Blasted Blight on our Beautiful Maples
Seeing dark spots and blighted tissue on our native maple leaves?
