Dear Neil: We have twig girdler beetles in our post oak trees. We worked hard last year to keep these trees alive, and we don't want to lose them now. Will these pests hurt the trees? How do we ...

However, twig girdlers are causing most of this damage to tree limbs. The beetle also attacks persimmon, hickory, oak, poplar, dogwood and other shade trees. The pecan girdler has a very ...

These “twig girdlers” are distributed through the eastern ... They pick on elms in particular but seem to like hickory, oak, linden, hack berry, apple, pecan, persimmon, poplar, sour gum ...

In our area, it prefers red oak, but also attacks live oaks in the ... No girdling on the outside of twigs is evident, as with our next twig girdler, the longhorn beetle. Longhorn beetle adults ...

Please note that we don’t have a small oak in the yard with great distance ... Both are beetles, and one is called the twig girdler, Oncideres cingulata; and the twig pruner, or Elaphidionoides ...

“That can be the work of a female beetle called the oak twig girdler,” he said. “If so, all you can do is regard the browned tips as an aesthetic problem that won’t have any major impact ...

There is nothing for you to be concerned with or any action to take regarding your oak trees. The primary way to control twig pruner and twig girdler is to rake and destroy the fallen twigs should ...

He reports that red oak twigs are scattered all over his deck, but the cutting doesn't look like the work of twig girdlers. Some other nefarious critter may be at work in his oak trees.

It's the handy work of the twig girdler (Oncideres cingulata). Pecan, hickories, and persimmon are the preferred hosts, but other hardwoods, including oak and honeylocust, may be attacked.

Actually, similar damage is caused by a small group of insects, called twig girdlers and twig pruners. Fortunately, these insects are not a serious problem, but their presence can be seen as small ...

Unlike the twig girdler damage discussed earlier, this is almost always done by squirrels. For whatever their reason they seem to love live oak twigs. You’ll see large trees with numerous dead ...

Squirrel damage can look similar to oak twig girdler insect damage. These insects have a two-year life cycle and symptoms generally occur every other year. The oak twig girdler is a small beetle ...