Prevent Squirrel Damage to Your Trees: Don’t Let Them Gnaw What’s Up
If you've been dealing with squirrels chewing the bark off your thin-barked trees, we have a couple of effective solutions to share. Squirrels often gnaw on trees like Red Oaks,…
Tree PSA: Unwanted Web Designers – Fall Webworms Have Arrived
As our summer kicks off to a humid, intense start, a pest that has been absent since 2019 seems to be returning with a vengeance. Despite their name, Fall Webworms…
Oak Wilt in Austin
Oak Wilt is a horrible tree disease that plagues Central Texas. I wanted to relay some Austin-specific information to help Austinites navigate the Oak Wilt Pandemic. I do not want to…
Tree PSA: The Pecans are Not All Right
I wanted to raise awareness about an issue that I have been seeing in my professional work over the last few weeks. This year we have noticed an exceptional amount…
Combatting Wood-Boring Beetles in Central Texas: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment
Wood-boring beetles are among the most significant insect pests affecting trees in our area. Although these beetles are seldom the primary cause of a tree's stress, their presence is a…
Protecting Austin’s Urban Forest: The Case Against Leyland Cypress
I wanted to shed some light on a common yet disastrous tree choice for our Central Texas landscapes: the Leyland Cypress. Despite its popularity, this tree faces a multitude of…
The Death of Urban Trees
1. Introduction Since September, a typically rare disease known as hypoxylon canker has been showing up much more frequently on our urban trees than in the past 13 years I…