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  1. Christmas Trees Offer Many Environmental Benefits — And You Can Put a Dollar Sign Next to Them

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/christmas-trees-offer-many-environmental-benefits-%E2%80%94-and-you-can-put-dollar-sign-next

    up." A blue spruce with a 2-inch-diameter trunk growing on a Christmas tree farm in, say, Doylestown in ... runoff and reduction of atmospheric carbon by 20 pounds. Meanwhile, a Scotch pine at that same location ... average).   Dollar value of benefits provided by a 2-inch-diameter blue spruce Christmas tree, planted in ...

  2. Beware of falling ash trees

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/beware-falling-ash-trees

    the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle originally from Asia, has since killed off swaths of trees ... Ohio was an ash. The ash borer beetle lays its eggs on an ash tree, and when the eggs hatch, the larvae ... tunnel inward to feed on a ring of the tree, just beneath the bark. As the larvae grow, they etch deeper ...

  3. Resources

    https://forages.osu.edu/resources

    Forage Factsheet Series- NEW! Website Links Photo Gallery Videos Bulletins Presentations ...

  4. Exotic Tree Pest Generating Concern in Forestry/Nursery Industries

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/exotic-tree-pest-generating-concern-forestrynursery-industries

    beetle, known as the emerald ash borer, has been identified as Agrilus planipennis, and is generating ... similarly to other insects in the genus Agrilus, such as the bronze birch borer, a key pest of white-barked ... years is more common," said Herms. Infestations prove fatal because the larvae feed under the bark ...

  5. Gardeners, Get Grafting: 2 Workshops Will Show How

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/gardeners-get-grafting-2-workshops-will-show-how

    parts — called the rootstocks or understocks — will be from apple, white pine, ginkgo, Norway spruce and ...

  6. Structural and Vertebrate Pests Webinar

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/events/structural-and-vertebrate-pests-webinar

    10a- General Pest-  Pantry Pests Dr. David Shetlar, OSUE Emeritus 4:00 Dismiss Still need one category? ...

  7. Storm Cleanup Good Opportunity to Check for Emerald Ash Borer

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/storm-cleanup-good-opportunity-check-emerald-ash-borer

    which feed on EAB larvae living under the trees bark. Other symptoms of EAB infestation € such as the ... sapwood € require that the bark be peeled off to detect them. A fact sheet with details and pictures of ... Diagnostic Check-off List under the Factsheets/Bulletins section of the Web site) or through local OSU ...

  8. News tips and events for the week of Oct. 28

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/news-tips-and-events-for-the-week-oct-28

    Tip 1: Halloween beetles haunting houses:  In Ohio it’s the season for “Halloween beetles ... ”—aka multicolored Asian lady beetles, which are typically pumpkin-orange with black spots—to swarm and sometimes get ... Participants will learn tips on identifying trees based on their bark, buds, twigs, nuts, and shape; will ...

  9. Viburnum Chewer Makes Its Way Into Ohio

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/viburnum-chewer-makes-its-way-ohio

    hungry for the popular woody ornamentals. The viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni, was recently ... sighting of the pest in U.S. territory occurred in 1996 in New York state. Since then, the beetle has ... viburnum leaf beetle is a very damaging, invasive pest," said Dan Herms, an entomologist with Ohio ...

  10. Alfalfa Weevil and Potato Leafhopper Status in Ohio's Alfalfa Crop

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/alfalfa-weevil-and-potato-leafhopper-status-ohios-alfalfa-crop

    State University Extension’s factsheet on potato leafhopper in alfalfa is at: ... https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ENT-33 An excellent resource for other forage-related questions is the OSU Extension’s Forage Page at:  ...

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