Has the Spotted Lantern made it to your area yet?

[evo]

Glad to know that I'm not the only depressed cynical arborist.... Regarding the red oaks and bacterial leaf scorch, is there a vector spreading it?
EAB has made it to the west coast and I'm devastated for our only native ash.
The more I learn the more I think I don't want to know, while very few care about our alders they are getting annihilated from many things but I think the worst is phytopthrora alni
Western red Cedar are fucked, as well as hemlock, grand fir and starting to see Dougs go...
Cherry tortix beetle and so on...

 

[Reach]

Glad to know that I'm not the only depressed cynical arborist.... Regarding the red oaks and bacterial leaf scorch, is there a vector spreading it? EAB has made it to the west coast and I'm devastated for our only native ash. The more I learn the more I think I don't want to know, while very few care about our alders they are getting annihilated from many things but I think the worst is phytopthrora alni Western red Cedar are fucked, as well as hemlock, grand fir and starting to see Dougs go... Cherry tortix beetle and so on...

I am not aware of any specific vector, my understanding is that any xylem feeding insect can spread out. It also almost certainly spreads via root grafts, so if you have one oak tree on your property that is visibly infected, likely the others will be if they aren’t already.

EAB is terrible. Start pushing hard for treatments for anyone you can talk into it, treat before you see damage, definitely don’t wait. If you wait, they go downhill very quickly because they don’t show noteworthy damage until a year or two after infestation.

 

[Daniel]

From the different reports out of PA it sounds like the initial invasion event is over, kind of like a brush fire burning through and now their numbers are reduced but obviously they're now here to stay.

It is disheartening to see one wave after another of exotic insects and fungi pummeling yet another key tree species. We're about 4 years in with EAB in eastern Massachusetts, I think the EAB populations are now greatly reduced, they've destroyed most of the mature ash trees.

Beech Leaf Disease is yet another tree tragedy in the making in New England. Getting to the point of "What's left? What's next?"
-AJ

It's a tree holocaust... and a bird holocaust too... reports of early explorers said that the skied would be darkened by the size of flying flocks...

after seeing what was going on with the trees....

I knew it was only a matter of time before something came after us...

BLS can be helped greatly by watering during dry times...

 

[evo]

I am not aware of any specific vector, my understanding is that any xylem feeding insect can spread out. It also almost certainly spreads via root grafts, so if you have one oak tree on your property that is visibly infected, likely the others will be if they aren’t already.

EAB is terrible. Start pushing hard for treatments for anyone you can talk into it, treat before you see damage, definitely don’t wait. If you wait, they go downhill very quickly because they don’t show noteworthy damage until a year or two after infestation.

Good info, unfortunately and fortunately we don’t have any native ash on the island and besides a few Raywood cultivars other than those they are relatively rare as plantings here. Washington only has a few distinct locals with native ash, it’s just my heart breaking for my old home state stomping grounds in Oregon….

 

[Undeciduous]

I don’t know, I haven’t heard anything about it, I just know about three years ago we started seeing it, and every year in September now we get buried with calls from people who want to “prune the dead branches out of their oak“ and those trees are usually half dead by the time we get there. We are trying to push treatments on just about everybody with an oak to keep them going, but it’s expensive, a lot of people won’t do it or can’t afford it.

I can totally relate to this. Its sad though because a lot of the oaks in our area are 50-60+ feet tall. Homeowners think I am crazy telling them that this tree is declining and theres not much to do to stop it. WE might be able to slow the decline down but its only a matter of time.

Than you talk pricing for removal of the tree and they hate you even more lol.