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Volunteers standing in line waiting to plant trees

New Trees at Stallings Elementary

New nonprofit gifts trees to Stallings Elementary If it’s true that the best way to teach is by example, then students at Stallings Elementary School received a valuable lesson in nurturing and…

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Pesky Mosquito Control

Mosquitoes are important pests because their irritating bites often interfere with outdoor activities and can transmit disease to people and domestic animals. I lost a good friend a few years ago to…

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Tree Roots & Sewers

Tree roots explore their soil environment in search of nutrients and moisture. If your sewer pipe has a vulnerability, tree roots will find it and exploit it. They will find a crack and put a tiny…

English Ivy

When the leaves are off the trees in winter you can easily see all the English ivy vines growing up tree trunks. N.C. Cooperative Extension, Union County Center wants you to remove the English Ivy…

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Bradford Pear Exchange

The Bradford Pear became a popular ornamental plant for homeowners as it produces beautiful white flowers in the spring. However, while the Bradford Pear looks idyllic, the tree emits a foul odor.…

Agri-Business in Union County

Agriculture is the single largest component of the economy in Union County. With ample farmland, a skilled workforce, and a rapidly improving food production system, Union County farms are reaching…

Without a buffer between the lawn and tree trunks damage is likely. Such is the case with this cherry tree. There is nothing to be done once the damage has taken place. A mulch buffer would have prevented this damage form the weedeater. (Credit Casey Tree

Mechanical Injuries are a Threat to Tree Health

When a tree is bumped, scraped, or chewed by a lawn mower or weed eater, the resulting wound can seriously threaten the life of that tree. Not only is the wound itself damaging, but pathogens can…

Carpenter Bees

Carpenter bees are easy to confuse with bumblebees. Behavior and appearance are two characteristics that can be used to tell them apart.Carpenter bees have a shiny, iridescent, hairless abdomen that…

Striped hairy caterpillar with yellow and black bands on leaf litter

Eastern Tent Caterpillar

Eastern Tent Caterpillars hatch about the same time as our native tree the Eastern Redbud starts to bloom. This insect overwinters in egg masses attached to the twigs of host trees, with wild cherry…