Arbonaut
Go Climb It
Part of Murphy's Law states: Look unimportant, the enemy may be low on ammo.
I don't mind going out on a limb to take one for the team. Leaders are used to drawing fire. You don't expect others to go out and draw lines in the sand.
I graduated from the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Program twelve years ago. Disease was the fourth week, insects the fifth. You had some of this in school. If you don't have a strong background in this type of thing, don't come here to debate based on generalization. When you approach a master, be specific. If you have anything negative to say at this point, please feel free to start your own thread.
In the Disease Triangle four things are required. If one of these factors is missing, it is likely a disease will not occur. One is a susceptible host. In this thread, we will consider a primary source of firewood, the Ash Tree to be a susceptible host. Second you need a pathogen which is referred to as a causual agent because it causes the problem. We'll address the European Emerald Ash Borer Beetle as the primary causual agent-the pathogen in this example. Third, you need a favorable environment. This environment is your woods and mine, especially infected trees and wood on the forest floor combined with warm temperatures and moisture. And the fourth part of the equation is time.
In the Illinois Master Gardener Manual, the first and most effective recommendation for the control of an insect pest is mechanical control. This is physical removal. The trolls are gonna try to eat this one alive, but let's compare this to getting moles out of your lawn. The only way you can do it for sure, is to catch them and kill them. No more moles. With the EAB Beetle, my suggestion follows this professional integrated pest management philosophy-destroy as much of the disease causing organism as you can. Burn it in your furnace before it matures.
My opponents in this don't recommend destroying the already present pathogenic causual agent. They recommend controlling it by providing it with the other three parts of the Disease Triangle; 1. A susceptible host. 2. A favorable environment. And probably most important 3. Time.
I don't mind going out on a limb to take one for the team. Leaders are used to drawing fire. You don't expect others to go out and draw lines in the sand.
I graduated from the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Program twelve years ago. Disease was the fourth week, insects the fifth. You had some of this in school. If you don't have a strong background in this type of thing, don't come here to debate based on generalization. When you approach a master, be specific. If you have anything negative to say at this point, please feel free to start your own thread.
In the Disease Triangle four things are required. If one of these factors is missing, it is likely a disease will not occur. One is a susceptible host. In this thread, we will consider a primary source of firewood, the Ash Tree to be a susceptible host. Second you need a pathogen which is referred to as a causual agent because it causes the problem. We'll address the European Emerald Ash Borer Beetle as the primary causual agent-the pathogen in this example. Third, you need a favorable environment. This environment is your woods and mine, especially infected trees and wood on the forest floor combined with warm temperatures and moisture. And the fourth part of the equation is time.
In the Illinois Master Gardener Manual, the first and most effective recommendation for the control of an insect pest is mechanical control. This is physical removal. The trolls are gonna try to eat this one alive, but let's compare this to getting moles out of your lawn. The only way you can do it for sure, is to catch them and kill them. No more moles. With the EAB Beetle, my suggestion follows this professional integrated pest management philosophy-destroy as much of the disease causing organism as you can. Burn it in your furnace before it matures.
My opponents in this don't recommend destroying the already present pathogenic causual agent. They recommend controlling it by providing it with the other three parts of the Disease Triangle; 1. A susceptible host. 2. A favorable environment. And probably most important 3. Time.
