Fall Webworm is just another insect to plague our trees this season. Unsightly tents are appearing everywhere. The favourite host trees of the Fall Webworm include Walnut, Cherry, Hickory, Crabapple and Birch trees. Larvae (caterpillars) pass through as many as 11...
History Boxwoods are planted as ornamentals and typically used for edging, as hedges, and/or clipped into different shapes to make topiaries (Figure 1). However when infested, the plants are disfigured by the loss of leaves, by webbing spun by the larvae, as well as...
Compost tea is a fantastic way to reduce the use of high nitrogen and phosphorus-based fertilizers. The overuse of fertilizers can be detrimental to our water table through leaching of nitrogen and phosphorus into our lakes, rivers, and drinking water. Compost tea is...
