{"id":190,"date":"2010-06-21T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/06\/21\/my-maple-tree-is-being-invaded\/"},"modified":"2010-09-15T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:45:41","slug":"my-maple-tree-is-being-invaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/06\/21\/my-maple-tree-is-being-invaded\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;My Maple Tree Is Being Invaded&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/TB-u9mmw-oI\/AAAAAAAAAQI\/uram86LeqzU\/s1600\/barkliceadultAW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485295244518947458\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/TB-u9mmw-oI\/AAAAAAAAAQI\/uram86LeqzU\/s320\/barkliceadultAW.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> photo: Dr. Alan Windham, UT Plant Pathologist<\/p>\n<p>The following is a real query sent to an Extension agent over the phone: \u201cI have thousands of insects on 8 of my 10 maple trees. I fear they will kill my trees, one has already died. The insects huddle together. I am not positive they have wings, they may, but refuse to fly. Their antenna are twice as long as their body; 6 legs; body is 1\/4\u201d long, blackish, the body tapers to a pointed rear end. I see multiple groups on my tree branches. Smaller, shorter ones have white lines across body. They are the younger ones.<br \/>\nBarklice also called psocids (Order <em>Psocoptera<\/em> feed on mold\/fungi etc. on the bark). They are harmless and tend to aggregate. There are immatures (without wings) and adult (winged) present. The photo shows the winged barklice adults.<br \/>\n<strong>Lesson learned<\/strong>: not all insects are harmful, ready to injure your garden plants. Are you curious what killed the homeowner&#8217;s other maple tree last year? I am too, but he cut it down before anyone could diagnose it.<br \/>\nContact your local county Extension office for gardening assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo: Dr. Alan Windham, UT Plant Pathologist The following is a real query sent to an Extension agent over the phone: \u201cI have thousands of insects on 8 of my 10 maple trees. I fear they will kill my trees, one has already died. The insects huddle together. I am not positive they have wings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,616,606,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}