How to Protect Your Colorado Landscape from Spider Mites
Spider mites are common and destructive pests in Colorado yards, including on trees of all kinds. Learn how to identify these tiny arachnids and control them before they kill your plants.
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Aspen Trees: Common Problems & What To Do
Although Colorado’s aspen trees are beautiful, they’re also prone to a host of aspen tree problems. Thankfully, most are preventable or treatable – especially if you address the #1 issue nearly all aspens in our area face.
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Summer Alert: Colorado Tree Bugs to Watch for This Season
Colorado tree bugs love damaging our precious trees in summer. Learn how to identify, prevent, and manage these insect pests to keep your trees healthy all season.
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Is the Top of Your Spruce Tree Bending? It May be Damage from the White Pine Weevil
If the top of your spruce trees are bending and turning brown, they may be infected by the white pine weevil. Learn more about how this tree pest impacts Colorado trees in this article.
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How Wildfire Management makes Mountain Pine Beetle (and Other Pests) Worse
In this article, we will explain more about this strange relationship between wildfire suppression and tree pests, explore what can be done to change this pattern, and give you information on how to keep your Colorado property fire safe and your trees healthy.
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Are your tree pests attracting wasps?
Wasps are different from bees. While bees provide benefits to our plants, wasps on the other hand, can cause harm to humans due to their stings. Learn why wasps appear in your Colorado property and know what you can do to ward them off.
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Mountain Pine Beetles
Periodic outbreaks of mountain pine beetles can destroy millions of trees in Colorado and other states. They develop primarily in pines and can spread rapidly. Here’s what you need to know about treatment and how to help stop the spread of mountain pine beetles.
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How to Identify & Get Rid of Spruce Budworms
Spruce budworms can cause serious damage. Identify and manage them early to save your trees & avoid further infestation. Here’s how you can get rid of them.
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How to Prevent Winter Rodent Damage to Your Trees
Voles, gophers, rabbits, and squirrels can damage or even kill trees during the winter. See our recommendations for how to keep your trees safe from rodent damage this winter.
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How Spring Weather Affects Treatment Timing For Weeds, Insect Pests & Tree Diseases
Have you ever wondered why weeds, bugs, and plant diseases seem to appear earlier some years but much later other years? Unlike holidays and birthdays, the emergence of weeds and insect populations isn’t determined by a date on your calendar. Instead, timing is based on a combination of factors, with spring weather conditions being the most important.
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Aspens Turning Orange? It’s Cytospora Canker
Cytospora canker causes dead or dying areas on tree bark. In aspens, this area turns orange. The cankers kill tree branches (you’ll often see this in spruce) and, in severe cases, will kill the whole tree. There’s no cure so prevention is critical.
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Scale Insects: Oystershell, Pine Needle & Striped Pine Scale
Scale insects can be extremely damaging to trees and shrubs in the Evergreen, CO region, causing leaf/needle discoloration, defoliation, stunted growth, limb dieback, vulnerability to other pests and diseases, and even plant death. Here’s how to identify scale insects, as well as treatment options and timing.
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Aphids Cause Sticky Leaves & Black Patches
Aphids are small insects that suck the sap from plant leaves, twigs and stems. They excrete a sticky substance called honeydew (often mistaken for sap “bleeding” from the tree) that can develop sooty mold (a black coating on leaves and surfaces). Treatment and prevention are possible. Read more for the details.
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Ips Beetle – A Killer of Pine and Spruce Trees
Ips beetles are a frequent problem in Colorado, including here in the Denver foothills where they can kill whole forests in a single season. They’re especially problematic during periods of prolonged drought.
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Dwarf Mistletoe – The Facts
This common parasitic plant makes its home on pine trees. It’s a weed! We can prune it out of your trees or spray to keep it from spreading. Every situation is different, so let a Certified Arborist help you mitigate Dwarf Mistletoe problems.
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Cooley Spruce Gall Adelgid
Cooley spruce galls are common in Colorado and are often seen on blue spruce. The galls are caused by the Cooley spruce gall adelgid (or wooly aphid). But while they may look alarming, Cooley spruce galls usually do little or no damage to the tree.
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LAM Tree Service, Inc.
P. O. Box 2486, Evergreen, CO 80437-2486
Physical Location:
30476 Bryant Drive, Evergreen, CO
Phone: 303-674-8733
HOURS
Monday—Friday: 8:00AM–4:00PM
Saturday & Sunday by appointment only
