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The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) in collaboration with the USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced yesterday that a 5.2 square mile area that includes port...
boggs.47@osu.edu Wed, 03/19/2025 - 14:33
Brood XIV (14) of the 17-year periodical cicadas (Magicicada spp.) will appear this spring with high populations over a wide geographical area that in...
Risks From Trees - a short discussion
MAR 19, 2025
Tree will be helped with new technique in UK first
MAR 19, 2025
The fascinating complex life cycle of hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae Annand
MAR 18, 2025
Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae, is an invasive insect that causes tree decline and mortality of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana) in ...
Carpenter Ants in Trees
MAR 18, 2025
This past summer, the BEHT Team inspected a tree where a pile of sawdust had accumulated around the base of the trunk. It was carpenter ants, (Camponotus spp.) working within a compromised...
Biochar Application - A Practical Guide for Improving and Constructing Soils for Urban Trees
DEC 17, 2024
WHAT IS BIOCHAR?
Biochar is a type of charcoal produced from exposing organic
materials (woody or agricultural waste products) to heat of around
450-650°C in a low- or no-oxygen environment through the p...
Box Tree Moth (BTM) Federal Quarantine Expanded
DEC 16, 2024
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has expanded the Box Tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) federal quarantines to include all counties in Delaware and Erie County in...
Research scientists at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories – the research arm of the F. A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company – have developed novel Integrated Pest Management strategies to treat Bea...
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By Caleb J. Wilson, Ph.D.
Trees in species-rich forests often suffer less damage from insect pests compared to trees in forests dominated by a few common species. Many hypotheses have been proposed...
