In this WHYY Philly article, Jason Parker from Davey's Warminster office explains how you can tell if your tree is a zombie tree.
To the untrained eye, the carnelian-red leaves blanketing the green grass at Szymanek Park signal the arrival of autumn in Warminster. 
But local arborist Jason Parker senses something amiss. A “zombie tree.”
“Zombie tree is a term that’s been used to describe a tree that’s dead or dying, maybe on the inside, but doesn’t necessarily look like it on the outside,” Parker said. “You may not understand what’s going on until all of a sudden — the tree is completely dead.”
Anecdotally, Parker is seeing more of the undead these days. Climate change is bringing warmer winters, which is shortening the time trees lay dormant and recover. Bugs and diseases are also active for longer, threatening to sentence trees across the Greater Philadelphia region to a life of decay.
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