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Yep, I owe it all to the ISA. If it wasn't for them I would just be doing whatever the customer wanted.:D Better get to bed, this singing voice has to stay pristine you know!

Don't I have to hug it and sing cume ba ya first?

TA-DAAA Here's the email I got from the Merced Cooperative Extension guy: Stephen, I met with the insect expert at the Ag commisioners office (Bob Aguiler) and we identified the insects found in the tree. Is was the larvae of the carpenter moth. There is not much we can do for control. They...

I had to wait for the guy to return from vacation in Illinois. You must have a better keyboard than I do.:)

If it is ALB, maybe it was caught in time.

I don't know. I've never done this before. He would peel back the bark exposing the gallery until he found one with a big larva in it. He then did a few others in which he didn't find anything, and then found one with the small worms in it. He was trying to not hack the tree up too bad, (but...

I met with the Cooperative Extension guy from Merced County this morning at the tree. He dug out some grubs using a hatchet. He found one big one (larva about 1 1/2" long and 3/8" in diameter) and several tiny little worms about as big as a fly maggot. There are huge black galleries under the...

The tree looks good.

I don't think so, most of the holes were full of frass. I have a tenative date with the merced co. guy for sept 16th, to meet with him at the tree and he will attempt to dig one of the buggars out.

Point taken.

I drove down and got some pictures today. 1. showing the frass on the ground 2. showing the frass in the crotch of the tree 3. hole 4. " 5. showing how deep the hole was, this was the deepest one I found, some are only in as far as the bark goes. Under construction? I contacted the Ag...

Aren't ALB supposed to be up in the northeast only?

I couldn't say for sure Erik but they appeared to go straight into the wood. I stuck my finger in a little ways. I could possibly go check them out further on tuesday.

I went on a consult the other day and the guy had a sugar maple with some normal looking borer holes (about 1/8") but then there were some large holes I would say about 3/8" to 7/16" with some large piles of frass outside them. They were concentrated around the crotch of the tree about 6' high...