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The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced there are worsening conditions of beech leaf disease in the state.
Sean O'Brien, from the UNH Cooperative Extension, takes a look at how beech leaf disease spreads and the signs to help you ...
One of these was going to be my population of young beech trees. But, this spring, many of the beech leaves have been a little funky. Their leaves are curled up and discolored…this is how I learned ...
Unfortunately, there is a substantial threat to this tree that spans across the eastern United States — beech leaf disease ...
Beech leaf disease was the first detected in Ohio in 2012. How it got to the state is unclear, as is how it rapidly spread as far north as Maine, as far south as Virginia and to parts of all the ...
In 2020, beech leaf disease was found in Massachusetts, home to an estimated 141 million beech trees — many clustered in the western part of the state — which account for 10 percent of all ...
Three years ago, Cochran first noticed the telltale signs of beech leaf disease: an unhealthy striping of the leaves. She simply decided not to walk up that far the wooded hillside. Today, the disease ...
It's no day at the beach for beech trees on Cape Cod these days. A malady known as beech leaf disease (BLD), first detected in Ohio in 2012, has made its way to Massachusetts, where it was first ...
Beech leaf disease is thought to be caused by an invasive worm called a nematode that attacks the tree’s buds and damages so many leaves it’s hard for the tree to photosynthesize.
Ecosystem of beech trees possibly in jeopardy 02:03. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new threat to trees in the mid-Atlantic region could be much worse than the spotted lanternflies. Beech trees are very ...
But Beech Leaf Disease “is a new problem” at the fields, first identified there in 2021. “It does not necessarily attack the entire tree at once. The canopy can be affected, ...
Last week, beech leaf disease was spotted for a second time in the Adirondack Park. First discovered in 2012, the disease remains an unknown on many fronts - including exactly what causes it.