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Posts Tagged: trees

Pruning Trees in Winter

Winter is an ideal time to prune deciduous fruit and shade trees, since the trees are dormant and...

Posted on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 4:41 PM
Tags: apricot (4), cherry (6), disease (54), dormant (1), environmental disorders (5), fruit (10), pest (210), prune (5), pruning (7), tree (22), trees (18), UC IPM (404), winter (10)
Focus Area Tags: Pest Management, Yard & Garden

Mistletoe

Mistletoe hung in doorways is a traditional holiday decoration, but when it's growing on trees in...

Dwarf mistletoe stems and seeds on a pine branch. (Photo: Jack Kelly Clark)
Dwarf mistletoe stems and seeds on a pine branch. (Photo: Jack Kelly Clark)

Dwarf mistletoe stems and seeds on a pine branch. (Photo: Jack Kelly Clark)

Posted on Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 2:57 PM
Tags: broadleaf (1), dwarf (1), holiday (6), mistletoe (4), parasitic plant (4), trees (18), UC IPM (404)

What's that Sticky Stuff on my Car?

It's hot outside, so like a lot of people, you try to park your car under a tree in parking lots...

Posted on Monday, September 11, 2017 at 9:40 AM
Tags: citricola scale (1), honeydew (8), pest (210), sooty mold (5), trees (18), UC IPM (404), woolly hackberry aphid (1)

Using Herbicides Safely Around Trees

[From the May 2017 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] It's among every landscape professional's...

Posted on Monday, June 5, 2017 at 12:14 PM

Invasive Shot Hole Borers Threatening Trees in Southern California

[From the December 2016 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] The Polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB)...

Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 1:10 PM
Tags: borer (5), control (66), detection (2), dieback (6), fungus (8), fusarium (6), graphium (1), hosts (2), KSHB (1), Kuroshio (2), management (73), paracremonium (1), polyphagous (5), PSHB (4), shot hole (4), trees (18)

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