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Get to Know Field & Forest Products
Get to Know Field & Forest Products We’ve recently teamed up with Field & Forest Products for a mushroom kit giveaway. We’ll have more on our Facebook, Instagram, and X pages about the...
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Two Pine Bark Beetle Predators: The Dubious Checkered Beetle and The...
Two Pine Bark Beetle Predators: The Dubious Checkered Beetle and The Long-legged Fly In a recent post on our TrueTreeTalk blog, we told you about pine bark beetles. We also had a post about blue...
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Mushroom Monday: Laccaria bicolor
Mushroom Monday: Laccaria bicolor Happy Mushroom Monday! Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is Laccaria bicolor. This mushroom is interesting in appearance and has an important distinction. Learn...
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Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale
Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale Crepe myrtle bark scale (Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae) is a pest problem you may have heard about or encountered yourself. Read below to learn more about this pest and contact...
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Bacterial Leaf Scorch
Bacterial Leaf Scorch In today’s TrueTreeTalk blog post, we take a look at a plant disease, bacterial leaf scorch. Learn about this disease in our post below. What is Bacterial Leaf Scorch? Bacterial...
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Mushroom Monday: Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis)
Mushroom Monday: Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis) The Mushroom Monday mushroom for today is the Pink Waxcap (Porpolomopsis calyptriformis) mushroom. Pink waxcaps are rare mushrooms with the...
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Ambrosia Beetles
Ambrosia Beetles In today’s TrueTreeTalk post, we take a look at ambrosia beetles. These beetles, and the fungus they spread, can have a serious impact on trees. Learn more about them below. What...
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Elm Yellows: A Devastating Tree Disease
Elm Yellows: A Devastating Tree Disease In today’s post we take a look at a devastating tree disease, elm yellows. Learn about this disease, what causes it, and how it affects trees in our latest...
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Mushroom Monday: Amanita amerirubescens
Mushroom Monday: Amanita amerirubescens It’s Mushroom Monday again and today’s mushroom is Amanita amerirubescens. You might think this mushroom is a little shy because of the way it blushes. It’s...
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Average Temperatures in the Austin, Texas Area Over the Last 40 Years
Average Temperatures in the Austin, Texas Area Over the Last 40 Years In a recent survey, you responded that you wanted to learn more about climate change. In this post, we take a look at one aspect...
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Yearly Precipitation Totals for The Austin, Texas Area for the Last 40 Years
Yearly Precipitation Totals for The Austin, Texas Area for the Last 40 Years We thought we’d keep our focus on the climate with this post (in our last post we looked at temperature) and this time look...
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Mushroom Monday: Wrinkled Peach Mushroom (Rhodotus palmatus)
Mushroom Monday: Wrinkled Peach Mushroom (Rhodotus palmatus) Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the wrinkled peach mushroom (aka rosy veincap) (Rhodotus palmatus). It’s a unique mushroom with a...
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Under the Canopy: Tree Cover in Austin, Texas
Under the Canopy: Tree Cover in Austin, Texas We recently came across an interesting story and report (check here for more details). It was about how much of Austin is covered with trees if you were...
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Ten Things to Keep in Mind as You Water Your Trees This Summer
Ten Things to Keep in Mind as You Water Your Trees This Summer We recently came across a somewhat unusual story about how water from leaky pipes in Austin, Texas helps trees along a creek to grow and...
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Mushroom Monday: Beech Mushroom (Hypsizygus tessulatus)
Mushroom Monday: Beech Mushroom (Hypsizygus tessulatus) Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the Beech Mushroom (Hypsizygus tessulatus). They are also known as shimeji mushrooms as well as by other...
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Two Common Trees in Austin: Cedar Elm and Sugarberry – Part I
Two Common Trees in Austin: Cedar Elm and Sugarberry – Part I We recently came across two reports. One was from 2021 and it drew information from a 2014 report. Both reports were about trees in...
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Two Common Trees in Austin: Cedar Elm and Sugarberry – Part II
Two Common Trees in Austin: Cedar Elm and Sugarberry – Part II In a recent post we talked about two reports related to trees in Austin, Texas. You can find them here: 2021 report and 2014 report....
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Mushroom Monday: Wine Cap Mushroom (Stropharia rugosoannulata)
Mushroom Monday: Wine Cap Mushroom (Stropharia rugosoannulata) Hello Mushroom Monday fans! Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the wine cap mushroom (Stropharia rugosoannulata). No need to have a...
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The Question Mark Butterfly
The Question Mark Butterfly We recently posted about two common trees in Austin, the Cedar Elm and the Sugarberry. In those posts we mentioned two butterflies, the question mark butterfly and the...
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Mourning Cloak Butterflies
Mourning Cloak Butterflies In two previous posts, we wrote about two common trees in Austin, Texas: the Cedar Elm and the Sugarberry. In them, we mentioned two butterflies that use the trees as hosts...
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