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What Is The Tiny Satin Moth And Can It Damage My Tree?

5/30/2019

 
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Trees are a valuable asset that makes your property more beautiful. They offer protection from the wind, pleasant view, and shade. While trees are typically resilient and sturdy, diseases and insects can deliver permanent destruction if left unnoticed.

​Presently, a
satin moth damages trees and is a serious threat. However, it’s a threat that can be prevented and treated with the right care.


The satin moth is a frequent insect in the area and typically isn’t a big issue. They feed on Poplar trees, even though they can be seen on oak and willow trees too. They can quickly destroy a tree when they are feeding.

Satin Moth Causes

Most mature healthy trees can deal with an assault by satin moths with no ill effects. However, specific environmental and climatic conditions are favorable to the pests. This indicates that they’re even more widespread than previously thought. The population of moths has rapidly grown.

The issue is that even though a healthy tree can sustain an attack from a satin moth, repeat exposure can create so much harm that the tree can't mend.

What to Do

Some steps can be taken to stop more damage from occurring. Another effective way of fighting the issue is pressure washing of the tree. This blows the eggs and larvae out of the tree. If you find that your tree has been infested, your local tree care service can visit and take care of this problem for you.

Another solution is to put sticky bands on the trunk. This aids in trapping the caterpillars as travel all over the tree to feed.

Satin Moths Detection

You can identify satin moths by the white and black bands on their legs. The caterpillars are light brown to light gray with a dark head and yellow or white markings all along their backs. Eggs are laid on leaves and can be seen around the trunk and on the ground.

For more information on treating trees and stopping damage, call a Rochester arborist. Don’t forget that satin moths can create permanent damage and even kill your trees. ​

What You Need To Know About Ticks

5/23/2019

 
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As the weather gets warmer, ticks begin to show up on pets, in outdoor spaces, and even on humans. Sadly, they're not just annoying bugs. Ticks carry Lyme disease as well as other viruses and assorted bacteria types. A tick bite can make you very ill. Below is what you need to know about ticks, where they live and what you can do to not getting bitten.

Where the Ticks Are

Ticks love moist, humid areas. They are in gardens grassy fields, and woodlands. They can attach to a branch, pet fur, or a blade of grass. Also, ticks can connect to your shoes, hair, and clothing. Even worse, ticks can stick to the skin of an animal or human, feasting on their blood.

Stop Tick Bites

If you're going on a stroll through some woodlands or even walking down the road next to the woods, you should wear clothes that protect and cover your skin. For example, tuck your pants legs into your boots so ticks can go up your legs. Wear a hat or baseball hat to ticks don’t get into your hair and on your scalp. Protect your arms by wearing a long-sleeve shirt. Also, there are numerous sprays that you can use on your skin to repel ticks.

Tick Check-Up

Ticks can conceal in numerous spots on your body. When you come home from a walk or time outdoors in a wooded area, look at your feet, legs, and arms. Have a loved one check your scalp and hair for ticks. Luckily, there is a way to eliminate ticks on your skin carefully. Shower and change your clothing when you come back from a walk and don’t forget to wash your dirty clothes in hot water to destroy any ticks you can’t see.

Eliminate the Ticks in Your Outdoor Space

Ticks love to hide under leaves, in tall grasses, and trees. One of the easiest ways to lessen the number of ticks in your outdoor space is to chop down large grass patches and get rid of tall weeds. If you need assistance contact a tree care professional.

How To Take Care Of A Tree Hit By Lightning

5/16/2019

 
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The recent forest fires plaguing other countries provide a real lesson on the significance of how to take care of a tree hit by lightning. Spring and summer include days of thunderstorms that raises the regularity of destructive strikes. When thunderclouds roam, and conditions are dry, lightning can change trees into fuel, which creates horrific forest fires.

Trees react to lightning just like a human being which is cooking on the inside and having a scar on the surface. With trees, sap cooks along the strike path, producing internal pressure via steam evaporation, tearing the tree apart from the inside out.
 
When Lightning Strikes

Before determining a course of action, you want to wait inside until the danger of more electric discharges is over. Don’t believe that saying that lightning never strikes the same place twice. Leaving your office or home in the middle of a storm makes you a target for getting hit by lightning.

Typically, a lightning strike leaves an apparent physical trace, regardless of the tree is split in half or the bark of the tree is burned. There are times the destruction ends up showing itself as a piece of bark that has been ripped away without any other apparent reason. If you believe your tree has been hit by lightning, stay away until the risk is gone before doing a tree inspection for damage. You can also contact a tree contractor to do a comprehensive, professional tree inspection as well.

Choosing a Course of Action

Trees can survive much worse than what humans and nature put them through. Though, if your tree has been permanent damage due to a lightning strike, it's critical to decide the best course of action to take to fix the situation.

Damaged limbs and stripped bark aren’t big problems. But, if the damage seems pretty bad, it's crucial to make sure you don’t have a dying tree. Dying, dead trees need to be gone from your property, particularly if right next to trees that are alive and healthy. Dead trees function as kindling that can light a forest fire and even work as a host to spread illness like mountain pine beetle, which favors old growth pines and are able of unfolding destruction.​

There A Few Common Issues To Look Out For With Pine Trees

5/9/2019

 
PictureA pine tree with dying needles
Right now, all around the nation, there are dying pine trees. There’s nothing more beautiful than a healthy pine tree. However, trees are living organisms that are as vulnerable to trauma and disease like other organisms. Below is information on common issues with pine trees.

Pine Trees Dying

Pine wilt is brought on by the pinewood nematode, an organism of the pine sawyer beetle that devours the resin canal of a tree. This hinders the flow of nutrients and water to the branches. Attacking one limb at a time, the needles become brown, and the tree dies quickly, usually within four weeks.

The only cure for this illness is to chop down the tree, removing and burning the wood, saving the other plants from getting infected. If your tree is infected, call an arborist and schedule tree removal service.

More Pine Tree Diseases

Dothistroma, another name for needle blight, is a fungal virus in the needles. You can spot it by the white band in the center of the needle that slowly becomes brown. At some point, one half of the needle stays green while the tip turns brown. If untreated, the tree will die.

Pine Tree Diseases Treatments

You can also treat needle blight with copper fungicide. This virus affects individual limbs on a tree, and you can detect it when the limbs start to look weal and leak resin. The needles become brown, and the cones produce little brown spots. You can spot Nantucket pine tree damage by examining the terminal bud at the tree branch tip. A hollow bud indicates the moth has harmed the tree.

Stress on Pine Trees

The vital thing to know is that trees, like humans, suffer from anxiety and become vulnerable to illnesses. Non-native species of tree, such as the Japanese black pine, are more vulnerable since they have been damaged via environmental factors including lousy diet and lack of water.

Pine Plantations Maintenance

Perform a soil test every three years to make sure that your trees are getting the right combination of nutrients and water. Proper plant sanitation like disinfecting your gardening tools can also reduce the risk of infection. Routinely gather fallen needles and dispose of them so that they can’t harbor parasites. Trim dead limbs from trees and sanitize your shears.​

What Is Involved In Removing A Fallen Tree?

5/2/2019

 
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If you have a tree in your yard that you’d like gone, do you have any notion of how much the price will be? What goes into estimating the cost of removing a fallen tree might amaze you.

Tree Contractor's Estimations

There are four factors in coming up with a price: location, condition, size, and diameter. The arborist will have to chop the fallen tree into controllable sizes, meaning the larger ones will cost more than the little ones.

The most original calculation is only for the body of the tree. That cost doesn’t entail carrying away the branches. You could have to pay more for that, depending on what tree care company you use. If the tree has big heavy limbs, then branch removal becomes more expensive as well.

Therefore, different types of fallen trees can cause an adjustment in price, for example, how a pine tree costs less to chop up and carry away than an oak. Location is all about easy access for the tree specialist. The harder it is to get to the fallen tree, and the amount of work needed to avoid any risk to the property will alter the cost.

Additional Factors

After the fallen tree is removed, you have a stump. Stump removal is practically never included in the tree removal cost. The tree expert will need special equipment to remove your stump. Many trees have various levels of difficulty in their roots systems. Of course, younger trees have fewer roots than older ones. If there are utility lines overhead close to where the tree fell, make sure to contact the utility company before getting the tree removed. You don't want to accidentally cause the whole neighborhood to lose power and go black.

My Arborist is Giving Me a Fair Price, Right?

Ensure that the folks you hire have an excellent reputation as highly-trained and fair tree contractors who care about their community and their work. Their company goal is to assist folks in removing trees efficiently and safely. Their arborists, who are trained and experienced, can handle any tree removal situation in any location, making sure not to damage the property.

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