“Bronze birch borer is the most common pest of paper bark birches. The wormlike borer feeds under the tree bark, and the feeding eventually blocks the flow of water and nutrients to the leaves ...

Anyone who has this challenge will come to appreciate paper bark birch trees. The theme was pink hill ... a D-shaped hole and eating the edges of the leaves before they lay eggs.

One of the first major colonial protests—a demonstration against the Stamp Act of 1765—took place around the tree. Birch (Betula paprifera) leaves are doubly toothed around the margins and ...

It’s the time of year when yellownecked caterpillars will soon engulf unprotected river birch trees. These pests also feed on blueberry, hickory, maple and oaks, but I have only seen them on ...