What's eating the crabapple leaves?
It happens every summer...the leaves start disappearing from the lower half of decorative crabapple trees all over the metro. Ours is crucial to the landscape but looks half naked from August on. Is there any way to prevent this next year?
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Permalink Reply by Mark McRoberts on -
Hey Carol: The problem could be as simple as cedar apple rust. Do you have any cedar trees within a couple of miles or less? If you do and you have permission to get on the property check the tree all over for dried gauls about the size of a quarter. During humid and warm time in the summer you might see something that looks like an orange dog toy. It is a ball like mass that is orange in color and has these pointed apendages. The whole thing looks very alien and gross. Google Cedar apple rust and check out the pictures.
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Permalink Reply by gina rayl on -
Sounds like deer to me. They forage at night so I set up driveway alarms around my property to alert me to their presence and chase them away-sometimes I am too tired to run around at midnight but i always pay for my sloth with half naked trees and stripped rose and berry bushes. Good incentive to get up.
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Permalink Reply by Carol Rothwell on -
Not in this case, although we certainly see their effect on hydrangeas, lilies and other delicacies. But the white crabapple tree is bare at least 15 feet above ground. Our Prairiefire crabapples seem to be okay.
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