BRANCHING OUT, an IPM Newsletter for Trees and Shrubs may be just the ticket if your woody ornamentals pest management program could benefit from timely, reliable field reports and up-to date management recommendations.

What is Branching Out?
Faculty and staff in Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology, in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension educators throughout the state, gather information for Branching Out via on-site scouting at selected locations from Long Island to Rochester, and they use that information together with tips from professional and trade literature to prepare articles of interest to you.

Paid subscribers can also access the newsletter on-line. (Click on the 2008 Issues button on the left). If you don't have the passwords AND are a PAID subscriber simply e-mail ddo1@cornell.edu and request the passwords. Please let us know under whose name the subscription is listed.

Video Spotlights
As a new feature this year we're adding videos to our web site. Come see our videos on emerald ash borer, Eastern tent caterpillar time lapse ,sirex woodwasp emergence, pine needle scale, forest tent caterpillar, viburnum leaf beetle larvae time lapse,and more!

Bound Set
Looking for a good educational reference to learn about tree and shrub management? Try a bound collection of the 2008 season of the Branching Out newsletter. Only $20 for a bound set with laminated color cover.