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["Kelly Lockamy" <garden_muse@bellsouth.net>]

it's definately web and not fungus.  thanks for the bagworm suggestion, i'll
look into it.
k
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] OAK PROBLEM


> Kelly Lockamy wrote:
>
> > Is anyone familiar with what makes a coating of webs over the trunk and
> > branches of oak trees?  Every one of my oaks has it to some degree and
I'd
> > like to know if the trees are in danger. (live oak & water oak)
>
> Bagworms? I have them on persimmons and river birches.
>
> Some of my white ash trees have a white coating of some fungus or scale
> surrounding segments of some of the branches - looks like icing on a
cake -
> it can be peeled off & is about 1/16' - 1/8" thick.
>
>
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