Our winter temperature roller-coaster ride has yielded some surprising results in southwest Ohio. This unscientific report presents a few observations.

You can have a positive impact on the plight of our pollinators thanks to "Plants Bees Like Best: Bee-Friendly Trees and Shrubs."

Longhorned beetles emerge from firewood to the surprise and consternation of homeowners.

Nancy Taylor recently found a great resource regarding ticks called the Laboratory of Medical Zoology (LMZ).  LMZ is an academic research lab at the University of Massachusetts with a focus on infectious diseases or more specific "zoonosis".  Their website describes zoonosis as "diseases with transmission cycles that involve other animal species."  One of the great things about this resource is that they test ticks for diseases.  The standard test of deer ticks is $50.00 and includes testing for Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis and Babesiosis.  In addition you can search their database and find...

Eastern Tent Caterpillar (ETC) moth eggs have started hatching in Georgetown, KY, which means that egg hatch should be on the horizon in Greater Cincinnati.

The early flowering of trees and shrubs in Greater Cincinnati is highly unusual; perhaps unprecedented. Phenological and GDD indicators predict that overwintered eggs of eastern tent caterpillars may be hatching.

Are you looking to get your emerald ash borer (EAB) updates?  Pesticides?  Parasitoids?  Why not learn more about EAB and other invasives from the comfortable of your own office or home?  Tomorrow, February 21 is the official kick-off to the "2017 spring semester." 

 

On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 11:00 am EST, Dr. Cliff Sadof with Purdue University will be providing an update on Chemical Control of EAB:  What Works, What Doesn't Work, and Why.  This session is the first of a series of presentations that include information on hemlock woolly...

What effect will our balmy winter temperatures have on insect pests? Overwintering strategies of insects are varied and complicated meaning we can't paint with a broad brush when answering this question.

Winter walk reveals weird willow pinecone galls.

 

 

If you are on the Ohio State University campus anytime now until May 14, 2017,  Building Ohio State it is a must see.  In fact, it is worth a trip to Columbus to specifically see this library exhibit. You won't be disappointed as the amount of planning and preparation by the team that pulled everything together is truly amazing! You will learn about how trees play such an important role - both while they are alive and after they are harvested. One of my favorite areas of the exhibit included a "did you know case" that included a wide variety of...