Knowing the signs of common fruit tree diseases can help you minimize losses, protect your trees (and fruit yield), and prevent other trees in your yard or orchard from contracting the disease. Here ...

Anthracnose, a fungal disease affecting maple trees, is prevalent in Greater Columbus due to the cool, wet spring. The disease causes brown leaf spots, curling leaves and premature leaf drop, but ...

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

NORTHERN MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- One of the most common trees found across northern Michigan is at high risk for disease from now until mid-July. We look at why red oaks are more prone to disease now ...

An area on the outside of a tree trunk that appears to be stained white or looks wet during summer is likely bacterial wetwood. It is also known as slime flux. Wetwood is a common disease affecting ...

A potentially devastating disease epidemic is attacking our region's most common evergreen trees. Colorado, Black Hills and Norway spruce have long been planted in yards and shelterbelts. Most of the ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - Several cases of oak wilt fungus have been confirmed in the Bird Hills Nature Area after a concerned resident reported a tree that looked unhealthy to city officials.

A man in India visited a doctor for a sore throat that affected his ability to eat and swallow. Doctors found an abscess in his throat, and it was full of a fungus usually only found on trees. These ...

FARGO - This year, the wet and cold spring weather is conducive to the development of anthracnose on shade trees. The anthracnose fungus can appear on just about any woody plant if conditions are ...

American elm trees (Ulmus americana) were once very common as forest and landscape trees in the eastern U.S. Their graceful vase shape and wide canopy made them especially popular for lining city ...