My birch tree has developed a yellowish color to the leaves. It also has been dropping a lot of brown leaves over the last couple of weeks. Are these two problems connected? What is wrong, and what ...
Sioux City Journal: Water dry birch trees to keep leaves from falling
Q: Can you help me figure out what’s likely going on with this river birch tree? The tree has been dropping leaves incessantly since about April/May, hundreds per day. Should this tree be dropping its ...
Post and Courier: Pests on hunt for tree leaves Caterpillars feed on birch, maple
Alaska Dispatch News: Seeing brown birch leaves? It’s not necessarily a sign of fall. Blame leaf-munching larvae.
Brown birch trees in both Southcentral and Interior Alaska this summer aren’t signaling an early fall. Rather, they are subject to an infestation of small, leaf-munching larvae. Alaska is in the midst ...
Seeing brown birch leaves? It’s not necessarily a sign of fall. Blame leaf-munching larvae.
Question: I'm writing to ask what to do about a 25-28- year-old white birch in my front yard. The leaves are turning yellow and falling at an alarming rate. This is the first time I have noticed such ...
Q. I have a clump birch that was planted in 1991. It has grown beautifully until this year. Long "seed worms" developed on two trunks, then shriveled up and now there are dead leaves on some of the ...
Chicago Tribune: Pinkish-red growth on birch leaves are galls called erineum patches
The pinkish-red spots on your birch’s leaves appear to be erineum patches, which are a type of gall caused by very tiny eriophyid mites feeding on the leaf tissue. You will need a microscope to see ...