LET UTAH TREE DOCTOR HELP WITH YOUR SPRING POPLAR BORER PROBLEM
What Is The Cause Of My Tree's Illness?
Gray bettles with a central yellow stripe on the thorax and yellow/black spotting on wing covers.
Damage Caused By Spring Poplar Borers
Larvae under the bark that burrow and feed producing large black swollen scars on the trunks and limbs of trees. The poplar borer is the most destructive insect to aspens. Attacks are generally restricted to large diameter trees. Trees most affected are unshaded and generally suffering from some growing stresses related to site.
How A Basic Diagnoses Is Made
During the early stages of infestation there iare often moist areas on the bark, many times accompanied by sawdust. When trees are chronically infested they may have a black varnish-like stain on the bark below points of the borer attack. The developing larvae push stringy sawdust out of holes in the bark and the sawdust often piles up around the base of trees. Weakened branches and trunks may break off in high winds and trees may be invaded by wood rot. Rough growths at the wound spots often harden and split the bark.
PESTS, PROBLEMS AND THEIR TREATMENTS
Ash Borer
Aspen Gall
Aspen Black Leaf Spot
Birch Leafminer
Birch Stink Bugs
Black Locust Borer
Black Turpentine Beetle/Pitch Moth
Boxelder Webworms
Bronze Birch Borer
Chlorosis
Codling Moth
Coryneum Blight
Conifer Bark Beetle Ground
Elm Leaf Beetle
Fall Poplar Borer
Fall Willow Borer
Fire Blight
Greater Peach Tree Borer
Gummosis
Honey Locust Borer
Lesser Peach Tree Borer
Oak Bullet Gall
Oak Lace Bugs
Oak Leaf Blister
Oak Webworms
Pine Tip Weevil
Powdery Mildew
Sawfly
Scale
Slime Flux
Spider Mites
Spring Poplar Borer
Spring Willow Borer
Spruce Cooley Gall Adelgid
Strawberry Root Weevil
Sycamore Anthracnose
Fruitworm
