In this CBS news article, Tyler Hesseltine from Davey's North Minneapolis office shares how the mild winter helped invasive insect but could hurt your trees.
Minnesota's warm winter has hurt the fight to control invasive species that attack trees and plants. Common invasive insects we see each year cannot survive typical Minnesota winters.
"We have not had a winter where we would expect much mortality for those types of pests," said Tyler Hesseltine, a certified master arborist with Davey Tree.
Hesseltine says we're already seeing some of the pests waking up from their winter slumber, such as the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug.
"Their activity has started earlier. We would expect that their populations would continue to build, and they would become a more endemic pest that we would see every year," he said.
The nasty home invaders aren't as damaging as our region's most destructive pest. After being first discovered in 2009, Emerald Ash Borer has now been confirmed in 50 counties, according to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
To read more of Tyler's information, click here.
For more information pleas contact the North Minneapolis Davey office.
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