If you want to know the truth, there are more bugs than you realize out there in your yard or garden. The good news is that most of these bugs don’t harm or feed on your lawn, trees or garden crops. In fact, many of them are beneficial and some even prey on pests that would like to damage your landscape plants. In broad terms, beneficial insects and other arthropods we might find in our yard can be categorized as…
With a millage renewal up for a vote in the August primary Owen Tree Service provided financial support to the Friends of Lapeer County EMS to help get the word out to local voters. The Lapeer County EMS is a municipal authority owned by thirteen communities in Lapeer County. According to Lapeer County EMS Directory Russ Adams, the millage will only support a “bare-bones budget” with 75% of the funding going towards wages and benefits and 25% being spent on…
Cytospora canker of spruce A common malady of blue spruce trees in southeast Michigan is a tree disease called Cytospora canker. Trees 20 years of age or older tend to be affected the most. Needles on lower branches will often become yellow, then brown. Often, needles will fall off the tree while still green. After several weeks, infected lower branches will appear defoliated and dead. Usually a bluish-white resin will be observed on branches near the trunk. The presence of…
Are you having difficulty growing grass in the shady areas throughout your lawn? Our experience reveals that these areas mostly exist under and along the drip line of trees. Sometimes, having a super lush and hardy lawn in these areas is simply not possible. Shady areas are the slowest areas to wake up in the spring and turf grasses thrive best in full sun. Here are some tips on how to give your shady lawn areas the best chance for…
There are two general categories of Lice: sucking and chewing. Both are parasites. Chewing Lice do not occur on humans. Way back when, lice were responsible for millions of deaths in Europe and Asia. They were, and still, are carriers of Typhus, Trench Fever, and Relapsing Fever; serious diseases that are barely a part of the vocabulary of any culture today. Large populations of Lice built up in densely crowded populations or situations where regular personal hygiene was not possible….