The June 3 Diagnostic Walkabout at the Mt. Airy Arboretum for Green Industry professionals is a comprehensive, hands-on training. Participants look at plants, plant pests, plant diseases, landscape designs, and other points of interest.

White, rounded, woolly-looking galls are appearing on oaks throughout Ohio. They are the Wool Sower Gall and are produced under the direction of the gall wasp, Callirhytis seminator (family Cynipidae).

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The “tHRIve - WEB SERIES” is where you can remain updated on a wide range of issues important to the Green Industry.  The webinar titled, “Box Tree Moth Demystified” was presented live last Wednesday, May 15.  The webinar covers what to look for with BTM and the latest results from BTM management trials.

United States Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Services, and The Ohio State University team up to trap for Spotted Lanternfly.

This beetle is widespread in the temperate parts of the world, including the Palearctic, Afrotropical, Australian, Nearactic, and Neotropical regions. In the United States, wharf borer is widespread in eastern and western coastal areas and the Great Lakes region.

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released a Federal Order yesterday providing new information on the expansion of quarantines for the Box Tree Moth (BTM) (Cydalima perspectalis, family Crambidae). The Order also noted that conditions for interstate movement of regulated articles have been established.

Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum) and Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) have reached developmental stages that place these weeds outside of effective management options in southwest Ohio. Wild parsnip is producing seeds while poison hemlock is in full bloom meaning seeds can still develop on plants that are cut or sprayed with an herbicide.

Highly localized outbreaks of these native flamboyant-looking caterpillars are not unusual in Ohio. Unfortunately, outbreaks can occur so quickly that they “sneak up” on homeowners and managers of landscapes, nurseries, and Christmas tree plantations.