Sticky, Dripping Oaks and Ghost Scales

I recently visited a commercial landscape that had 5” – 6” DBH bur oaks (Quercus macrocarpa) with their newly expanding leaves speckled with clear, sticky honeydew. Twigs and branches had a dark, dingy patina owing to black sooty molds colonizing honeydew in the past indicating the problem was not new.

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Joe Boggs