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These maples didn’t look bad from far away. But up close was a different story.

The OGIA/OSU Extension Hands-On Diagnostic Walkabouts for Green Industry professionals are a comprehensive, hands-on training. Participants examine and discuss plants, plant pests, plant diseases, landscape designs, and other points of interest.

Watch the latest edition of the Turfgrass Team Times. Turf Team Times is a biweekly YouTube video from the OSU Turfgrass Team with updates about what is happening in turf.  It provides timely and relevant updates for turfgrass professionals and homeowners. 

Wart-like bead galls are rising from the leaf surfaces of poison ivy and fragrant sumac. The galls on both plants are the handiwork of the Poison Ivy Leaf Gall Mite (Aculops rhois).

Late last week, I came across a nest of early instar, first-generation Fall Webworms (Hyphantria cunea, family Erebidae) on a boxelder (Acer negundo) in southwest Ohio. We see two generations in Ohio, sometimes three in the southern part of the state.

Buttonbush has become a favored native in Ohio landscapes. However, observations in southwest Ohio have revealed a native moth that produces leafmining and shoot-boring damage. The shoot symptoms mimic freeze/frost damage.

Questions are coming into OSU Extension offices about clumps of white, cottony, fluff wafting through Ohio’s forests and landscapes. The culprits behind the fibrous phenomenon are female eastern cottonwood trees (Populus deltoides, family Salicaceae).

This Alert focuses on the non-native Bristly Roseslug Sawfly. Although this sawfly and the European Roseslug have “slug” in their common names, they don’t share the slug-like body plan of other “slug sawflies,” and the larvae don’t cover themselves in shiny, slug-like slime.

Cressleaf Groundsel, commonly referred to as Butterweed, may look beautiful. But it is a weed and can be toxic to livestock if it is present in hay.