While I am grateful that my Zone 5 Japanese larch emerged from last winter relatively unscathed, it seems there’s another threat looming. Our frigid winters used to kill off the larvae of deadly pests ...

What: Each delicate needle and branch on Larix kaempferi “Diana” twists and turns like a corkscrew. The twirling blue-green needles are irresistibly soft and very touchable. In the fall, they turn a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Studies on the feeding habits of larch sawfly larvae, Pristiphora erichsonii (Hartig), in Maryland substantiated previous reports of a feeding ...

"I saw a pine tree with yellow needles; I think it's dying." That's everyone's first reaction to seeing a larch, which is one of only a few deciduous conifers. It's OK; it's supposed to lose its ...

For more than a decade, a stream of invasive tree pathogens has been arriving in Europe and North America 1, 2. Among the more damaging and unpredictable arrivals is Phytophthora ramorum. For some ...

The nation's larches would now be turning amber if so many of them had not aready turned black. No tree adds more to the glory of spring than the larch, as it gradually clothes itself with shimmering ...

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