[NAFEX] AACK! Persimmon borers(?!)
Lucky Pittman
lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Wed May 2 17:22:44 EDT 2007
At 04:44 PM 5/2/2007, Hal wrote:
>Do these "frass tubes" look like white-ish extrusions, about the diameter of
>a toothpick, that stick out from the bark up to about an inch long? Just
>curious, as I am seeing these types of thin cylinders all over several of my
>freeze damaged plants. The thin cylinders are light and soft, and
>disintegrate to an ash-like consistency when touched. My fig trees are
>covered with them, and there are a few on the kiwi trunks as well. I had
>assumed they were some sort of extruded material in response to freeze
>injury, since most do not seem to be coming from any obvious holes in the
>bark.
That's a perfect description of them - I've not seen them on
anything other than the persimmons, but I've not really looked, either.
While on my regular lunch hour stroll yesterday, I detoured through
the courtyard of the community college campus across the street from
my office to see what, if any, damage the sizeable trifoliate orange
tree sustained - it looks BAD! most of the branches/twigs are
yellow, with extensive splitting. Most leaves are wilted/yellow,
though there are occasional clumps of healthy green leaves here and
there - mostly underneath an overhanging second story.
LLP
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