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Index for 2005-2008: Insects and Diseases
(in some cases, plant hosts are listed in parenthesis)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Adelgid, balsam woolly - 9Jun06
Adelgid, hemlock woolly - 12Sep08, 9May08 (natural enemies of), 18Apr08, 30Mar07, 27Apr07, 24Aug07, 24Mar06, 21Apr06, 28Apr06, 29Sep0615Apr05, 29Apr05, 20May05
Adelgid, pine bark - 18Apr08, 04Apr08, 2Jun06, 15Apr05, 22Apr05, 20May05, 8Jul05, 15Jul05
Adelgid, woolly pine - 15Apr05
Ant, European fire - 31Aug07
Ant, flying (citrus or lemon) - 26Sep08, 11Apr08, 22Sep06
Ant, velvet - 19Sep08
Antlion - 29Jun07, 28Sep07, 19May06
Anthracnose - 23May08, 9May08, 22Jun07, 7Sep07, 19May06 (London plane tree), 8Apr05, 20May05 (sycamore), 17Jun05 (oaks)
Anthracnose, spot (on dogwood) - 13Jun08
Aphid - 03Oct08 (and beneficials) 29Aug08 (chives), 18Jul08 (crape myrtle), 5Jun08 (and beneficials), 23May08 (river birch), 18Apr0825May07, 28Apr06, 19May06, 2Jun06, 7Jul06 (tulip poplar), 14Jul06 (tulip poplar), 22Apr05 (roses and Japanese maple) 27May05 (oak - trunk), 23Sep05 (white pine)
Aphid, giant bark - 19Sep08
Aphid, green peach - 27Oct06
Aphid, rose - 11May07
Aphid, rosy apple - 29Aug08, 16May08,
19May06
Aphid, spiny witch-hazel gall - 25May07, 1Jun07
28Apr06, 2Jun06, 15Sep06, 6May05
Aphid, spirea - 30Apr04, 7May04, 10Jun05, 26May06
Aphid, spotted pine - 9Sep05 (white pine)
Aphid, viburnum - 20May05
Aphid, white pine - 10Oct08, 5Sep08, 19Oct07
Aphid, woolly - 12Sep08, 11May07 (hawthorn)
Aphid, woolly alder aphid - 17Oct08
Aphid, woolly apple - 23Sep05

Aphid, woolly beech - 17Aug07
Apple scab - 8Apr05
Artillery fungus  27May05


Bagworm - 25Jul08, 11Jul08, 3Jul08, 13Jun08, 30May08, 25May07, 8June07, 22Jun07, 29Jun07, 13Jul07,
26May06, 2Jun06, 9Jun06, 16Jun06, 23Jun06, 30Jun06, 21Jul06, 4Aug06, 3Jun05, 17Jun05, 24Jun05, 1Jul05, 8Jul05, 15Jul05, 22Jul05, 2Sep05, 9Sep05
Bee, carpenter - 29Jul05
Bee, giant leafcutter - 8June07, 29Jul05
Bee, ground nesting - 9May08, 22Apr05
Beetle, ambrosia beetle - 1Aug08, 25Jul08, 18Jul08, 11Jul08, 30May08, 16May08, 18Apr08, 11Apr08, 28March08, 23Mar07, 30Mar07, 6Apr07, 13Apr07, 25May07, 24Aug07, 31Aug07, 24Mar06, 21Apr06, 28Apr06, 5May06
(dogwood), 7Jul06 8Apr05, 22Apr057May05, 27May05 (Cornus kousa), 9Apr04, 23Apr04, 30Apr04, 7May04, 14May04
Beetle, Asian longhorned- 28Oct05 (upddate)
Beetle, bark - 29Apr05 (on white pine)

Beetle, blister - 19Sep08, 17Aug07, 14Sep07
Beetle, Carpophilus sp.- 17Jun05 (yucca)
Beetle, cedar longhorned (found in nurseries in Connecticut) - 17May07
Beetle, dusky sap - 13Jun08,
2Jun06
Beetle, Eastern hercules - 13Jul07, 26Aug05
Beetle, European elm bark - 5Jun08

Beetle, flea - 27Jun08, 20Jun08, 8June07
Beetle, goldenrod soldier - 23Jun06
Beetle, green June - 11Jul08, 2May08, 20Jul0721Apr06, 7Jul06
Beetle, grubs - 26Oct07, 24Aug07

Beetle, imported willow leaf - 11Apr08, 25May07, 1Apr05, 15Apr05, 29Apr05, 20May05
Beetle, ips bark - 24Aug06
Beetle, Japanese - 22Aug08, 18Jul08, 11Jul08, 27Jun08, 13Jun08, 28March08, 8June07, 14Jun07, 22Jun07, 29Jun07, 6Jul07 5Oct07, 12May06, 2Jun06, 16Jun06, 23Jun06, 7Jul06, 14Jul06, 21Jul06, 4Aug06, 11Aug06, 8Sep06 8Apr05, 18 Mar05, 17Jun05, 24Jun05, 1Jul05, 8Jul0515Jul05, 22Jul0529Jul05 (white grubs), 12Aug05, 2Sep05 (adults), 14Oct05,
Beetle, lady bird beetle - 23May08, 25May07, 22Jun077Jul06
Beetle, lady bird (Hyperaspis) - 13Jun08
Beetle, larger elm leaf - 21Jul06
Beetle, leaf (Chrysomelidae) - 16Sep05 (American elm)
Beetle, lightening (bugs) - 6Jul07
Beetle, May - 27May05 (river birch)
Beetle, metallic green tiger - 04Apr08, 21Apr06
Beetle, multi-colored Asian ladybug
(Harmonia axyridis) 5May06, 18Oct06Apr0520May05,
30Sep05, 28Oct05
Beetle, oriental - 27Jun08, 8June07
Beetle, pine bark - 11May07
Beetle, red flat bark - 26Sep08
Beetle, rose curculio - 30Jun06
Beetle, sap - 18Apr08
Beetle, smaller European elm bark - 04Apr08
Beetle, soldier - 4May07, 29Jun07
Beetle, spotted pine sawyer -
30Jun06
Beetle, tortoise(aka gold bug) - 20Jun08. 13Jul07, 28Jul06
Beetle, twice-stabbed - 5May06, 28Jul06
Beetle, whitefringed - 14Sep07
Beetle, willow leaf - 26May06, 17Jun05
Bird's nest fungus - 7Oct05
Black knot (on Prunus)- 28Mar08, 23Mar07, 7Apr06 (cicada damage wounds), 20May05 (ornamental plum)
Blight, diplodia tip - 03Oct08, 23May08
Blight, eastern filbert - 24Aug07, 21Jul06, 10Jun05 and 1Jul05 (on Harry Lauder's walking stick)
Blight, leyland cypres
Blight, southern - 13Jun08, 27Jul07, 30Jun06, 21Jul06, 15Jul05 (ajuga), 22Jul05 (ajuga and hosta)
Blight, Sphaeropsis shoot blight - 24Jun05
Blister, oakleaf - 30Jun06
Borer - 15Apr05 (red maple)
Borer, banded ash - 26Sep08, 29Aug08, 27Jul07, 10Aug07, 17Aug07, 21Sep07, 24Aug07, 24Aug06, 15Sep06, 6Oct06 9Sep05 (adults), 16Sep05, 14Oct05 28Oct05
Borer, beetle - 27May05 (Neoclytus sp.on ash)
Borer, brozne birch - 30May08, 23May08, 8June07
Borer, clearwing oak - 8Jul05
Borer, corn earworm - 1Aug08, 10Aug07
Borer, dogwood - 12May06
Borer, emerald ash - 29Aug08, 22Aug08, 15Aug08, 18Jul08, 11Jul08, 13Jun08, 23May08, 16May08, 21March08, 6Apr07, 27Apr07, 11May07, 8Jun07 (for Spanish info links), 14Jun07, 17Aug07,
7Sep07, 21Sep07, 5Oct07, 26Oct07, 24Aug06, 15Sep06, 29Sep06, 27Oct066May05, 28Oct05
Borer, flat headed apple tree - 3Jul08, 20Jun08, 13Jul07, 31Aug07, 23Jun06, 6Oct06, 7Oct05
Borer, iris - 18Apr08
Borer, lesser peach tree - 8June07, 6May05
Borer, lilac - 9May08, 27Apr07, 25May07, 5May06, 12May06, 29Apr05, 6May05 (adults), 13May05, 3Jun05
Borer, locust - 22Sep06

Borer, maple tip - 16May08
Borer, peach tree - 15Aug08, 18Apr08, 14Jun07, 29Jun07, 16Jun06, 23Jun06, 28Jul06, 8Jul05, 15Jul05, 25Aug05
Borer, redheaded ash - 23May08, 17Jun05
Borer, rhododendron - 15Aug08, 13Jun08, 27Apr07, 14Jun07, 23Jun06
Borer, twig borer damage - 12Aug05 (dogwood)
Borer, two-banded - 2Sep05
Botryodiplodia 8Apr05 (blue juniper)
Botryosphaeria - 8Jul05 (red and yellow twigged dogwood and rhododendron), 22Jul05 (viburnum)
Brown patch - 8Jul05 (lawn)
Bug, ash plant - 25May07
Bug, assassin - 3Jul08, 9May08, 6Apr07, 11May07, 22Jun07
Bug, azalea lace - 19Oct07,
5May06, 19May06, 2Jun06, 30Jun06, 21Jul06, 15Sep06, 13Oct06, 22Apr05
Bug, azalea plant (predator) - 9May08
Bug, bed - 3Jul08
Bug, boxelder - 17Oct08, 19Sep08, 11Jul08, 23Mar07
Bug, brown marmorated stink - 10Oct08, 30Mar07,
13Oct06, 29Apr05, 23Sep05, 28Oct05
Bug, chrysanthemum lace - 7Jul06
Bug, four-lined plant - 13Jun08, 30May08, 6May05 (azalea, rudbeckia, dogwood, rose and phlox), 17Jun05 (Rudbeckia and Buddleia), 26May06, 9Jun06 (phlox), 23Jun06
Bug, gold - 15Jul05 (sweet potato vine)
Bug, golden rain tree - 2May08, 12Oct07
Bug, green June - 15Jul05
Bug, green stink - 10Aug07
Bug, harlequin - 25Jul08, 10Aug07, 14Sep07, 26May06, 24Aug06, 2Sep05
Bug, hawthorn lace - 2May08, 11May07, 19May06, 30Jun06,
21Jul06, 15Sep06
Bug, honeylocust plant - 20Jun08, 23May08, 9May08, 17May07, 29Jun07, 26May066May05 (hatch), 20May05

Bug, lace - 22Aug08 (sycamore), 15Aug08 (London plane tree), 27Apr07, 11May07 (amelanchier) 28Sep07,
29Apr05 (hatch), 7Oct05
Bug, milkweed - 18Aug06
Bug, pieris lace - 25Apr08, 28Apr06, 21Jul06, 13May05, 27May05, 10Jun05
Bug, phlox plant - 30May08, 13Jul07
Bug, scentless plant - 10Oct08
Bug, spined soldier - 30Jun06
Bug, sycamore lace - 20Jul07
Bug, tarnished plant - 18Aug06
Bug, wheel (assassin) - 29Aug08, 31Mar06, 7Apr06, 21Apr06, 12May06, 23Jun06, 21Jul06, 28Oct05
Bug, yucca plant - 31Oct08, 27Jun08, 13Jun08, 16May08, 14Oct05, 2Jul04


Canker, ceridium - 14Jul06 (leyland cypress)
Canker, cytospora - 24Mar06 (spruce)
Canker, fungal - 4Aug06 (multiple pathogens found on maple)
Canker, fusicoccum - 1Jul05 (holly)
Cankerworm - 9May08, 2May08, 25Apr08, 11Apr08, 13Apr07, 4May07, 11May07, 17May07, 14May04, 29Apr05, 6May05 (purple leaf plum), 27May05, 14Apr06, 21Apr06, 28Apr06, 5May06, 12May06, 19May06

Caterpillar, brown hooded owlet - 28Oct05
Caterpillar, catalpa sphinx (hornworm) - 5Sep08, 25Jul08, 5Aug05, 28Jul06, 18Jun04, 29Jul05
Caterpillar, china mark moth - 15Aug08, 22Sep06
Caterpillar, Eastern tent - 17Oct08, 16May08, 18Apr08, 11Apr08, 04Apr08, 28Mar08, 21March08, 30Mar07, 6Apr07, 13Apr07, 27Apr07, 4May07, 11May07, 1Jun07, 24Mar06, 7Apr06, 14Apr06, 21Apr0615Apr05, 22Apr05, 29Apr05, 6May05
Caterpillar, euonymus - 5Jun08, 4May07, 13May05, 20May05, 10Jun05, 6May05
Caterpillar, euonymus leaf-notcher (
Pryeria sinica) - 24Oct08, 2May08, 18Apr08, 28Mar08, 23Mar07, 11May07, 24Mar06, 28Apr06, 1Apr05
Caterpillar, European pine shoot moth - 30Sep05
Caterpillar, flannel moth - 5Sep08, 26Aug05
Caterpillar, hag moth - 18Aug06
Caterpillar, hickory horned devil - 7Sep07, 28Jul06, 22Sep06, 3Sep04, 23Sep05
Caterpillar, holly looper - 7Jul06
Caterpillar, Horace's duskywing - 14Sep07
Caterpillar, hornworm - 7Jul06
Caterpillar, Imperial moth -  8Sep06, 29Jul05, 16Sep05
Caterpillar, Io moth - 22Aug08, 28Jul06, 11Aug06
Caterpillar, Laetilia coccidivora - 29Sep06 (feeding on magnolia scale)
Caterpillar, larch casebearer - 11May07
Caterpillar, leaf crumpler - 18Jul08
Caterpillar, leopard moth - 16May08
Caterpillar, Nantucket pine tip moth - 30Jun06
Caterpillar, oak leaf skeletonizer - 16Jun06
Caterpillar, orangehumped mapleworm - 12Sep08
Caterpillar, orange-striped oakworm - 29Aug08, 25Jul08, 27Jul07, 10Aug07, 11Aug06, 22Jul05
Catepillar, pine tip - 11May07
Caterpillar, pine tube moth - 6May05,
13May05
Caterpillar, poplar tentmaker - 23Sep05
Caterpillar, puss - 5Sep08, 18Jul08, 18Aug06 (holly)
Caterpillar, question mark - 16Sep05 (American elm)
Caterpillar, redhumped oakworm - 10Aug07
Caterpillar, regal moth 5Aug05
Caterpillar, saddleback - 15Aug08, 10Aug07, 11Aug06, 24Aug06, 25Aug05, 16Sep05
Caterpillar, skiff moth - 19Sep08, 8Sep06

Caterpillar, slug - 19Sep08(Button slug)
Caterpillar, tip borer - 15Sep06
Caterpillar, tobacco hornworm - 30Jun06
Caterpillar, tomato hornworm - 3Jul08
Caterpillar, tussock moth - 12Sep08, 15Jul05 (sycamore)
Caterpillar, white flannel moth - 11Aug06
Caterpillar, whitemarked tussock - 18Jul08
Caterpillar with parasite - 16Sep05
Caterpillar, variegated fritillary - 19Oct07
Caterpillar, yellownecked - 21Sep07, 14Jul06, 28Jul06
Cicada, periodical (2004) - 3Jul08, 23May08
Cicada, 2004 damage - 1Apr05, 8Apr05, 22Apr05
Cicada, dog day - 6Jul07, 20Jul07,
7Sep07, 4Aug06
Cicada killers - 1Aug08, 11Jul08,
4Aug06, 25Aug05
Cricket, snowy tree - 11Aug06, 30Sep05
Cricket, tree - 22Aug08, 24Aug07, 12Oct07, 29Jul05 (evergreen damage)
Crown rot (liriope)- 15Aug08, 11Jul08


Daddy long-leg - 27Apr07
Downey mildew - 10Aug07, 29Jul05


Earwigs - 27Jun08, 5Aug05


Fireblight - 26Sep08, 3Jul08, 5Jun08, 23May08, 16May08, 2May08, 4Apr08, 8Jun07, 17Aug07, 19May06,1Apr05, 24Jun05 (crabapples and ornamental pears)
Fly, crane - 11May07
Fly, robber (predator) - 1Aug08
Fly, seed corn maggot - 2Jun06
Fly, syrphid (or hover or drone) - 23May08, 25May07, 31Mar06, 12May06, 2Jun06,17Jun05
Fungus - Polyporous sulfureus (photo) 28Oct05
Fungus - Puffball
Calvatia sp. (photo) 28Oct05
Fusarium - 19Sep08, 23May08

Gall - 17Oct08, 16May08 (oaks, maples and birches), 
21Jul06 (bald cypress), 3Jun05 (silver maple)
Gall (an unusual gall on oak) - 12Sep08, 21Sep07, 28Sep07
Gall, agrobacterium crown - 19May06
Gall, ash flower - 13Jun08
Gall, bullet - 9Jun06
Gall, cynipid - 12Oct07
Gall, eriophyid mite (on maple) - 1Jun07
Gall, exobasidum - 9May08, 1Jun07, 14Jun07,
19May06 (azalea and camellia), 2Jun06, 10Jun05 (azalea)
Gall, gouty oak gall - 20May05
Gall, eyeospot on maple - 8Jun07
Gall, maple - caused by velvet erineum spindle gall mite - 25Aug05 (maple)
Gall, oak spangle - 12Aug05
Gall, spindle - 2Jun06
Gall, vein gall midge -13Jul07, 8Sep061Jul05 (sugar maple)
Gall, wool sower - 2Jun06
Girdler, twig- 31Oct08, 04Apr08
Grasshoppers - 19Oct07
Groundhog - control - 8Jul05
Grubs, white - 13Jun08, 28March08, 29Jun07,
19May06, 18Aug06, 15Apr05, 29Apr05, 5Aug05

Hosta Virus X -
23Jun06
Hornet, bald-faced -
18Jul08
Hornet, European - 12Sep08, 21Sep07, 8Sep06, 6Oct06, 16Sep05, 30Sep05
Hypoxylon Canker - 11Apr08


Kabatina - 24Aug07
Katydid - 18Apr08, 4May07 (eggs), 7Apr06 (eggs), 4Aug06


Lacewing - 24Mar06
Leaf curl - 3Jun05 (green ash)
Peach leaf curl - 8Apr05    

Leafhopper - 11Jul08, 21Jul06
Leafhopper (on honeylocust) - 20Jun08, 17May07, 29Jun07, 9Jun06, 20May05
Leafhopper, potato - 27Jun08, 23May08, 16May08, 17May07, 22Jun07, 13Jul07, 26May06, 9Jun06, 30Jun06, 21Jul06, 10Jun05, 17Jun05, 8Jul05
Leafminer - 7Jul06
Leafminer, birch - 16May08, 11Jun04, 22Apr05, 5May06
Leafminer, boxwood - 19Sep08, 9May08, 18Apr08, 28Mar08, 30Mar07, 4May07, 11May07, 7Apr06, 21Apr06, 28Apr06, 5May06, 8Apr05, 15Apr05, 29Apr05, 13May05
Leafminer, hawthorn - 16May08, 25Apr08, 11May07, 28Apr06
Leafminer, holly - 16May08, 14Apr06, 29Apr05
Leafminer, locust - 27Jun08, 25May07, 1Jun07, 20Jul07, 27Jul07, 8Jul05
Leafminer, tupelo - 5Sep08, 29Aug08, 21Sep07
Leaf scorch, bacterial - 03Oct08, 17Oct08, 31Aug07, 14Sep07, 24Aug06, 15Sep06
Leaf spot - 1Aug08 (Rudbeckia), 28Apr06 (red tip photinia),1Apr05
Leaf spot, cherry leaf - 1Jul05
Leaf spot, collectrichum - 17Jun05 (liriope)
Leaf spot, diplodia - 5Aug05 (Douglas fir)
Leaf spot, guignardia - 19May06
Leaf spot, photinia - 17Jun05
Leaf spot, septoria - 20Jun08, 24Aug07
Leaf spot, sooty blotch and fly speck (on apples) - 26Sep08
Leaf spot, phyllosticta - 30May08, 19May06 (Hamamelis), 4Aug06 (astilbe), 30Sep05 (maple)
Leaf spot, tubakia (Actinopelte leaf spot) - 29Jul05 (pin oak), 5Aug05 (white oak)
Leaf streak, daylily - 20Jun08
Lice, bark and book - 15Jul05
Lyme disease - 25Aug05

Mantid, praying - 19Sep08, 8Jun07, 14Jun07, 31Mar06, 7Apr06, 12May06, 22Sep06, 1Apr05, 27May05
Mealybug, taxus - 1Jun07
Midge, gouty pitch - 2May08
Midge, rose - 18Jul08
Mildew, downy - 30May08
Mite, boxwood spider - 23May08, 28Mar08, 30Mar07, 7Apr06, 21Apr06, 28Apr06, 30Jun06, 22Apr05
Mite, clover - 23May08, 18Apr08, 12May06
Mite, eriophyid - 13Jun08, 24Aug07, 21Jul06,24Jun05 (on beech)
Mite, honeylocust spider - 22Aug08, 15Aug08, 20Jun08, 27Jul07, 9Jun06
Mite, maple spider mite -17Jun05, 7Oct05
Mite, oak leaf gall (Pyemotes herfsi) - 17Aug07
Mite, pearleaf blister - 29Aug08, 16May08, 11May07, 28Apr06
Mite, predatory - 18Aug06
Mite, privet rust - 20May05
Mite, rust - 29Sep06
Mite, Southern red - 11Jul08, 20Jun08, 18Apr08, 1Jun07, 29Jun07, 27Jul07, 12May06, 23Jun06, 30Jun06, 29Jul05, 6May05, 10Jun05
Mite, spider - 11May07 (holly and maples)
Mite, spruce spider - 10Oct08, 19Sep08, 22Aug08, 18Apr08, 28Mar08, 27Apr07, 13Jul07
5Oct07, 12May06, 9Jun06, 14Jul06, 22Sep06, 18 Mar05, 1Apr05, 15Apr056May05, 20May05, 9Sep05
Mite, two-spotted spider - 13Jun08, 22Jun07, 29Jun07, 20Jul07 23Jun06, 21Jul06, 29Sep06 (Christmas fern), 6Oct06, 8Jul05 5Aug05, 12Aug05, 7Oct05, 14Oct05
Moth, gypsy - 1Aug08, 18Jul08, 13Jun08, 30May08, 23May08, 9May08, 25Apr08, 6Apr07, 27Apr07, 4May07,17May07, 8June07, 14Jun07, 29Jun07, 6Jul07, 27Jul07, 5Oct07(MDA press release), 14Apr06, 21Apr06, 28Apr06, 5May06, 19May06, 2Jun06, 9Jun06, 16Jun06, 23Jun06, 7Jul06 (adults), 14Jul06 (adults),  15Apr05, 22Apr05, 13May05, 1Jul05, 7Apr06 (eggs), 8Jul05 (adult males)
Moth, hummingbird clearwing - 25Jul08, 20Jul07, 28Jul06
Moth, io - 28Jul06
Moth, leopard -  7Jul06, 23Sep05
Moth, rosy maple - 29Jul05

Nematodes, pine wood - 24Mar06

Oak leaf blister - 11May07, 29Jul05 8Apr05


Pestalotiopsis - 10Aug07
Phomopsis - 25May07, 3Jun05 (periwinkle)
Phyllosticta - 29Jun07, 24Aug07
Phylloxera, grape - 22Aug08
Phylloxera, hickory - 5Jun08, 26May06
Planthopper - 14Jul06, 21Jul06, 5Aug05
Planthopper, honeylocust -
9Jun06
Plum pox disease - 22Jul05
Powdery mildew - 22Aug08, 13Jun08 (rose), 8Jun07, 10Aug07, 17Aug07,
7Sep07, 19May06 (pyracantha), 2Jun06 (phlox), 9Jun06 (nandina, euonymus, salvia), 30Jun06 (magnolia, London plane tree), 11Aug06 (London plane tree), 8Apr05, 24Jun05 (London plane tree)
Psyllid, boxwood - 25Apr08, 4May07, 11May07, 21Apr06, 5May06, 1Apr05, 15Apr05, 22Apr05, 29Apr05

Rhizoctonia - 25Aug05 (blue star juniper)
Rhizosphaea needlecast - 31Oct08
Rose rosette - 15Aug08, 13Jul07
Rust - 14Jul06 (Amelanchier), 16Sep05  (on deciduous azalea, blueberries)
Rust, ash - 26May06
Rust, chrysanthemum white - 5Oct07
Rust, daylily - 27Jun08, 7Oct05
Rust, gymnosporangium - 18Jul08, 2May08, 11Apr08, 4May07,  8Sep06, 8Apr05 27May05, 10Jun05, 8Jul05, 15Jul05, 30Jun06
Rust, hemlock - 8Apr05, 16Sep05
Rust, gall (on pine) - 11May07

Sawfly - 27Apr07 (pine), 14Jun07 (larch), 15Jul05, 25Aug05, and 23Sep05 (pine)
Sawfly, bristly rose - 29Aug08
Sawfly, dogwood - 5Sep08, 29Aug08, 10Aug07, 28Jul06, 4Aug06, 8Sep06, 12Aug05, 23Sep05
Sawfly, dusky birch - 5Oct07, 26May06, 15Sep06, 17Jun05
Sawfly, European pine - 17Oct08, 14Apr06, 18Aug06, 1Apr05, 15Apr05, 22Apr05
Sawfly, hawthorn leaf mining - 13May05
Sawfly, hibiscus - 11Jul08, 16Jun06, 30Jun06, 6May05, 15Jul05
Sawfly, imported European white pine - 13May05
Sawfly, Nematus sp. - 18Aug06
Sawfly, pine - 21Apr06, 15Apr05
Sawfly, red-headed pine - 22Aug08, 29Jun07, 24Aug07, 21Jul06, 8Sep06, 15Jul05, 9Sep05
Sawfly, rose slug  - 23May08, 11May07, 10Jun05
Sawfly, scarlet oak - 19Sep08, 14Jun07, 1Jul05 (red oak)
Sawfly, webspinning cherry - 29Jun07
Sawfly, white pine - 25Jul08
Scab, apple - 4Apr08
Scale, azalea bark - 03Oct08, 28Sep07,
19May06, 6May05
Scale, calico - 30May08, 11May07, 14Jun07, 12May06, 2Jun06, 9Jun06, 6May05, 27May05, 17Jun05
Scale, California red - 15Aug08
Scale, camphor - 27May05
Scale, cottony azalea - 8June07
Scale, cottony camellia (taxus) - 5Jun08, 30May08, 9May08, 28Mar08, 11May07, 1Jun07, 8June07, 7Apr06,  (overwintering), 14Apr06 (2nd instar females), 28Apr06, 19May06, 2Jun06, 9Jun06, 23Jun068Apr05, 20May05, 10Jun05, 8Jul05 (yews)

Scale, cottony cushion - 5Sep08, 2May08
Scale, cottony maple -  2Jun06
Scale, cryptomeria - 14Jul06, 2Sep05 (on fir)
Scale, euonymus scale - 5Jun08, 30May08, 25May07, 1Jun07, 13Jul07, 14Sep07, 21Sep07, 14Apr06, 19May06, 30Jun06, 14Jul06, 21Jul06, 22Apr05
Scale, European elm - 29Jun07
Scale, European peach - 22Aug08, 27May05

Scale, false Florida red - 26Sep08
Scale, felted (Eriococcin) - 1Jul05 (red oak), 12Aug05 (oak)
Scale, fern scale - 7Apr06, 22Apr05
Scale, fletcher - 3Jul08, 30May08, 17May07, 8June07, 30Jun06, 14Jul06
Scale, gloomy -
3Jul08, 18Apr08
Scale, greedy - 31Oct08
Scale, hawthorn - soft scale - 15Apr05
Scale, hemlock elongate (Fiorinia) - 16May08, 4May07, 7Apr06 (overwintering)
Scale, holly pit - 11May07, 17May07 (photo), 8June07
Scale, Indian wax - 17Oct08, 31Oct08, 18Jul08, 11Jul08, 18Apr08, 11May07,
26May06, 9Jun06, 29Sep06, 16Apr04, 15Apr05
Scale, Japanese - 1Apr05 (holly, dogwood, maple, lilac, euonymus, pyracantha, zelkova and privet)
Scale, Japanese maple - 22Aug08, 27Jun08, 28Mar08, 30Mar07, 6Apr07, 13Apr07, 14Jun07, 7Sep07, 22Apr05, 27May05, 17Jun05, 15Jul05
Scale, j
uniper - 20Jun08, 8June07, 10Aug07, 20May05
Scale, lecanium - 23May08, 4May07, 8June07, 19May06, 6May05 (maple, water oak)
Scale, maskell - 24Oct08, 29Aug08, 18Apr08, 22Jun07
Scale, minute cypress and Juniper - 20May05 (arborvitae)
Scale, minute cypress - 30May08, 23May08, 20May05
Scale, lecanium scale - 10Jun05 (oak)
Scale, obscure - 29Jun07, 9Jun06, 5Aug05 (pin oak)
Scale, oyster shell - 30Mar07, 11May07, 8Sep06, 8Jul05 (beech, holly, pyracantha, maple, lilac, london plane tree and dogwood)
Scale, peony - 1Jun07
Scale, pine needle - 5Jun08, 9May08, 25Apr08, 6Jul07,
21Jul06, 20May05
Scale, pine - 1Jul05
Scale, pine tortoise -6Jul07, 28Apr06
Scale, quince/latinia - 04Apr08
Scale, San Jose - 27Apr07, 1Jun07, 19Oct07, 19May06, 1Apr05 (cotoneaster, crabapples and pyracantha),
27May05
Scale, scurfy - 8Apr05 (Washington hawthorn)

Scale, spruce bud - 13Jul07
Scale, tea - 20Jun08, 21March08
Scale, tulip tree (and magnolia) - 29Aug08, 15Aug08, 18Apr08, 24Aug07, 31Aug07, 14Sep07, 28Jul06, 18Aug06, 8Sep06, 13Oct06, 22Apr05, 15Jul05, 16Sep05, 30Sep05
Scale, walnut - 13Apr07
Scale, white peach - 15Aug08, 8June07,
8Sep06, 15Sep06, 8Jul05
Scale, white prunicola - 12Sep08, 3Jul08, 30May08, 16May08, 4May07, 28Jul06, 22Sep06
Scale, winged euonymus - 13Apr07, 22Jun07, 12May06, 19May06
Scale, wooly pine - 15Jul05
Slime mold -
5Oct07 (turf)
Slit flux on big trees - 29Jul05
Slugs - 27Apr07 (and toads), 7Sep07
Spider, jumping - 6Apr07, 14Jul06
Spider, web building - 25Jul08
Spider mite destroyer (Stethorus) - 17Aug07
Spittlebug - 5Jun08, 4May07, 5May06, 9Jun06, 20May05 (leyland cypress) 3Jun05, 1Jul05 (leyland cypress), 14Jul06, 21May04, 4Jun04, 16Jul04, 29Apr05 
Springtail - 14Apr06

Swiss needle cast - 24Mar06 (Douglas fir), 24Aug06

Taphrina (peach leaf curl) - 30May08
Termite, formosan subterraneum - 24Mar06
Termite, subterranean termites - 27Apr07, 29Apr05 (mulch)
Thrips - 2May08 (privet), 22Jun07

Ticks - 18Jul08 (Lyme disease), 11Jul08 (and Lyme disease), 23May08, 25Apr08
Treehopper - 17Oct08, 5Oct07, 21Jul06

Verticillium wilt - 22Jun07
Volutella -
14Apr06 (euonymus), 8Sep06 (pachysandra), 8Apr05 (boxwood)

Wasp (Aphidius, Aphelinus) - 2Jun06
Wasp, braconid wasp - 17Aug07,16Sep05 (on a caterpillar)
Wasp, horned-tailed - 27Jun08, 24Aug07, 29Jul05, 12Aug05 (maple), 14Oct05
Wasp, Ichneumon - 21March08, 27Jul07
Wasp, parasitic - 23May08
Wasp, tiphiid wasps - 24Aug06, 15Jul05 (liriope)
Web blight - 29Jul05
Webworm, ailanthus - 1Aug08, 21Sep07
Webworm, bald cypress - 24Jun05  (defoliating bald cypress), 1Jul058Jul05
Webworm, fall - 15Aug08, 1Aug08, 13Jun08, 30May08, 22Jun07, 24Aug07, 5May06, 9Jun06, 23Jun06, 8Sep06, 10Jun05, 17Jun05, 24Jun05, 1Jul05, 12Aug05, 2Sep05, 9Sep05
Webworm, juniper - 11Apr08, 04Apr08, 23Mar07, 8Apr05, 21Apr06
Webworm, mimosa - 29Aug08, 11Jul08, 6Jul07, 27Jul07, 19May06, 30Jun06, 15Jul05, 16Sep05
Weevil - 22Jul05 (spruce),  12Aug05 (maple)
Weevil, Asiatic oak - 7Jul06,
22Jul05
Weevil, black vine - 24Oct08, 25Jul08, 30Mar07, 27Apr07, 7Sep07,
16Jun06, 28Jul06
Weevil, plum curculio - 16May08
Weevil, spruce - 22Jul05
Weevil, two-banded Japanese - 18Jul08, 29Jun0728Jul06, 15Apr05
Weevil, white pine- 22Jun07, 31Mar06, 8Aug05
Whitefly 8Jul05 (on aucuba, euonymus, azalea)
Whitefly, azalea - 23May08, 6May05
Whitefly, mulberry - 16May08,
30Jun06
Witches broom -
21Jul06

2006 Landscape IPM Report Survey Summary
2007 Landscape IPM Report Survey Summary

WEED OF THE WEEK ...

Amaranth, spiny - 27Apr07
Basketgrass, wavyleaf
- 10Aug07
Bermudagrass  - 28Apr06 , 24Jun05, 1Jul05
Bindweed, field - 22Jul05
Bittercress, hairy - 13Oct06
Bittersweet, Oriental - 9May08, 28Sep07
Black medic - 15Sep06, 15Jul05
Bluegrass, annual and roughstalk- 4May07
Buttercup, bulbous - 11Jul08
Carpetweed -  4Aug06, 28Oct05
Chicory - 20Jun08, 6Apr07
Chickweed -
27Apr07, 8Apr05
Clover, white - 7Oct05
Cocklebur, common - 3Jul08, 1Jul05
Crabgrass - 13Jun08, 28Mar08, 31Mar06, 15Apr05, 16Sep05, 30Sep05
Curly dock - 2Sep05
Daisy, annual or fleabane - 29Jun07, 26May06, 14Oct05
Dandelion - 26Oct07
Dandelion, dwarf -
18Apr08
Deadnettle, purple -
17Oct08, 18Oct06
Dodder - 29Aug08, 1Jun07, 11Aug06, 29Jul05, 12Aug05
Dogfennel - 5Oct07
Downy brome - 8Jun07
Foxtail, giant - 
11Aug06, 16Sep05
Foxtail, yellow -
25Apr08
Garlic, wild -
12Oct07
Goosegrass - 14Jun07
Grass, barnyard - 23Mar07
Groundsel, common -
17May07, 18 Mar05
Henbit -
04Apr08
Hops, Japanese - 9Jun06
Indian mock strawbery - 23May08
Ironweed, New York (native plant that was a problem in a commercial nursery) - 25Jul08
Ivy, ground - 9Jun06
Jewelweed - 14Jul06
Jimsonweed - 18Jul08, 13Jul07
Jointhead Arthraxon - 27Oct06
Kyllinga, green - 13Jun08
Knotweed, Japanese - 26Sep08
Lambsquarter - 30Mar07, 22Apr05
Lespedeza, common - 15Aug08
Locust, black - 12Sep08
Marestail - 16Jun06, 17Jun05
Mile-a-minute weed - 5May06, 13May05, 17Jun05
Milkweed, honeyvine (Amelamus albidus) -
21March08
Morning glory, entireleaf -
11May07
Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris)-
25May07
Mullein, common -
5Jun08, 21Jul06
Mustard, wild - 2May08, 22Jun07
Nettle, stinging -
24Aug07
Nightshade, bittersweet - 1Jun07, 6Oct06
Nightshade, Eastern black - 10Jun05
Nimblewill - 17Sep04
Nutsedge, yellow - 6May05, 29Jul05
Panicum, fall - 7Sep07, 9Sep05
Pigweed, redroot - 24Oct08, 7Jul06
Pineapple weed - 27Jun08
Plantain, blackseed - 16May08
Plantain, buckhorn - 2Jun06
Poison ivy - 21Sep07
Porcelainberry - 6Jul07
Purslane, common -
22Aug08, 18Aug06, 25Aug05
Queen Anne's Lace -
11Apr08
Quackgrass - 27Jul07
Ragweed, common - 26Sep08, 28Jul06, 4Aug06, 8Jul05, 12Aug05
Salsify (or goat's beard) - 23Jun06
Shepherd's-purse - 31Aug07
Smartweed, Pennsylvania - 1Aug08, 8Sep06
Speedwell, Persian - 14Sep07
Spurge, spotted - 24Aug06
Star of Bethlehem - 7Apr06
Stiltgrass, Japanese - 17Aug07, 1Apr05
Thistle (control) - 3Jun05

Thistle, Canada -   7Apr06, 27May05
Thistle, musk - 14Apr06
Thistle, tall - 21Apr06
Trumpetvine - 19Sep08
Velvetleaf - 30Jun06, 23Sep05
Venus' Looking glass - 5Sep08
Violet, wild - 12May06, 29Apr05
Virginia creeper - 20Jul07
Witchgrass - 29Aug08
Yellow rocket - 22Sep06
Yellow wood sorrel - 30May08, 19May06, 20May05

Weather:
2005 -
23Sep05 7Oct05, 14Oct05, 28Oct05
2006 - 24Mar06, 28Apr06, 5May06, 2Jun06, 23Jun06, 4Aug06, 4Aug06, 18Aug06, 24Aug06, 8Sep06
Drought, American holly wilting - 23Sep05
Drought, white pine dieback - 7Oct05
2007 - 23Mar07, 6Apr07, 17May07, 29Jun07, 19Oct07, 12Oct07,28Sep07, 21Sep07, 7Sep07, 24Aug07, 10Aug07, 27Jul07, 20Jul07, 6Jul07
2008 - 5Sep08, 29Aug08, 25Apr08, 11Apr08

Miscellaneous:
Amending landscape soils - 6Jul07
Annuals, collapsing in the landscape - 13Jun08
Azalea - 18Apr08
Beneficial insects - 28Mar08, 30Mar07
Birch, hybrid white bark -
28Jul06
Boxwood evaluations - 
7Apr06 (winter injury, leafminer, spider mites)
Brown patch in turf - 13Jun08
Cankers (on red maple) - 27Apr07
Cancer root/squaw root - 30May08
Damage, cold - 30Mar07, 6Apr07, 13Apr07
Damage, deer -
7Sep07
Damage, to trees from glyphysate products with different surfactants - 1Aug08
Damage, herbicide - 13Jul07, 7Sep07
Damage, pollution -
24Aug07
Damage, salt - 17May07, 20Jul07 (callery pear) 12Aug05 (dogwood)
Damage, squirrel - 5Sep08
Damage, woodpecker/sapsucker - 1Aug08, 25Apr08 (comments to April 18 report), 18Apr08, 27Apr0721Apr06, 1Apr05, 13May05
Defoliation, cherry trees - 19Sep08
Dormant oil use - 13Oct06
Fall transplanting, Leyland cypress - 28Oct05
Fertility management - 18Jul08, 5Jun08 (pH problems in the landscape), 13Apr07, 7Apr06, 28Apr06 (Aluminum sulfate), 2Jun06, 16Jun06, 18Aug06
Fruit, organic spray schedules -
28Mar08
Graffitti - removal from tree trunks - 30May08
Herbicides - mode of action - 13Apr07
Hydrangea quercifolia - 27Jun08
Imidacloprid and impact on beneficials in turf - 27Jun08
Injury, glyphosphate injury - 27May05
Injury, ozone - 5Aug05 (landscape & forest)
Liriope problems in the landscape - 03Oct08
Mistletoe - 4May07
Moles -
18Aug06
Oaks, dying - 5Sep08
Ornamental grasses - 14Oct05 (escaping)
Ornamental grasses  - 27Oct06 (in turf)
Petunias problems in the landscape - 29Jul05
Phragmites - 27Apr07
Pyracantha - 13Jun08
Red maple problems - 28Jul06, 4Aug06
Snail, brown garden - 15Sep06
Voles - 27Apr07
Zelkova (dropping branches) - 5Sep08, 29Aug08, 22Aug08

Plant of the Week


Abelia - 30May08, 26Oct07
Akebia quinata - 04Apr08
Arborvitae - 28Sep07
Aster novi-belgii - 26Sep08
Azalea (Encore) - 11May07
Bigleaf hydrangea - 14Jun07
Buddleia davidii - 22Aug08
Caryopteris x cladonensis - 12Sep08
Castanea dentata (American chestnut) - 1Aug08
Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula' - 20Jun08
Cherry, flowering Yoshino - 13Apr07
Cherry, weeping - 11Apr08
Clematis - 9May08
Clethra alnifolia - 10Aug07
Cornus florida - 25Apr08
Cornus kousa - 17Oct08
Cornus mas (Cornelian cherry dogwood) - 28Mar08

Crabapples - 27Apr07
Crape myrtle - 15Aug08,
28Sep07
Daylily - 6Jul07
Echinacea - 25Jul08
Epimedium - 8Jun07
Hardy hibiscus
- 13Jul07
Hydrangea anomala petiolaris (climbing hydrangea) - 3Jul08Golden rain tree - 17Aug07
Lantana camara - 5Sep08
Lilac - 4May07
Liriope -
31Aug07
Lonicera sempervirens - 16May08
Loropetalum chinense (Chinese fringe-flower) - 5Jun08Magnolia grandiflora - 1Jun07
Magnolia stellata - 21March08
Maple, Japanese
- 27Jul07
Mimosa - 29Jun07
Mountain laurel - 23May08, 22Jun07
Ornamental grasses - 24Aug07

Pear, callery - 6Apr07
Pine, eastern white - 24Oct08
Pink muhly grass - 10Oct08
Roses - 29Aug08, 19Oct07
Taxus baccata 'Repandens' - 19Sep08
Viburnum - 2May08
Vitex negundo (chastetree) - 11Jul08
Weigela florida - 25May07
Wisteria - 27Apr07


Updated October 6, 2008