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An Integrated Pest Management
Newsletter for Trees and Shrubs

 
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Branching Out

Branching Out logoBRANCHING 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 scouting photothroughout 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.pdf icon

   
Photos
Many of the photos were taken by our department photographer Kent Loeffler. See the Plant Pathology Photo Lab web site for more details.

Password Information
| 2008 Index | Other IPM Sites | Cornell Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic | Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology

 

Emerald Ash Borer Recently Found in New York State!! (June 2009)

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This finding of emerald ash borer in Cattaraugus County is the first time it has been detected in NY State. For more information see the DEC press release.
Click here for a video of a rotating emerald ash borer.

Oak Wilt found in NY State! (September 2008)oak wilt
Link to the Oak Wilt Announcemnent (pdf)

Link to video on Oak Wilt on YouTube


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Each issue contains:

  • an up-to the-minute scouting report highlighting pest activity
  • in-depth feature articles
  • growing degree-day reports
  • other items of interest to tree care professionals

See About This Newsletter for more information.

Branching Out readers report:

  • their pest management activities are based on better information
  • they apply fewer pesticides
  • those pesticides they do apply are better directed at truly damaging pests (and at the appropriate time to control those pests).

Contact Us
ddo1@cornell.edu