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Protecting Your Trees From Ash Borers
The emerald ash borer has become a sizable nuisance to small backyard landscaping, but it does not have to put a damper on your future landscape design ideas. Unfortunately the Asian beetle can infest and kill an ash tree within 2 to 4 years of its arrival if left unchecked. The little green beetle is…
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Death of a Great American Tree
The ecological history of the U.S. has been dotted with epidemics destroying large segments of the populations of certain tree species. Currently, ash trees are under threat of decimation, thanks to the arrival of the emerald ash borer, first discovered in southeastern Michigan in 2002. Thought to have come on a shipment of ash wood…