March/April is the time to think about:
Treating your apples for coddling moth worms.
Treating for sudden oak death, oak moth caterpillars, elm diseases/pests, and aphids.
Think about using a systemic for sucking insects.
Tree work.
Services Provided:
Consultations, Arborist Reports, Pruning and Removals, Emergency Tree Work, Pest Management, Diagnostics, Fertilizing
Consulting under Licenses:
Contractor's License #276793
Agricultural Pest Control Operator #QAL 109137
Pest Control Advisor #74835
Arboricultural Terms
- Anthracnose - Group of fungal diseases of trees that affects the leaves, stems, flowers, or fruit, causing spotting, blotching, or necrosis.
- Deciduous - Tree or other plant that sheds all of its leaves according to a genetically scheduled cycle during the cold season in temperate zones; compare to evergreen.
- Dormancy - Period of naturally reduced activity in plant growth with the potential for reactivation of growth.
- Dormant - State of reduced physiological activity in the organs of a plant.
- Evergreen - Tree or other plant that does not shed all of its foliage annually; compare to deciduous.
- Necrosis - Localized death of tissue in a living organism.
- Systemic - a pesticide that is absorbed by and permeates some or all of the host tissues, and that is more toxic to the target insects and pathogens than to the host.
