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Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-Miner

Subject: Re: Horse Chestnut Leaf-Miner
From: Jerry Ross
Date: Jul 03 2008 09:41:33 
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Justin Hobbs wrote:

Many areas of Gloucester (not a million miles from you) were badly affected last 
year and its spread to most parts now. Set a few local people & cllrs into 
panic mode. Trying to use it as a lever to get funds for more planting.
Hi Justin - Yes, Gloucester was one of the places I saw it last year. I
am, indeed, not a million miles away, more like twenty, yet there's not
much sign of it here (yet). I suppose in rural areas the Chestnuts are
fewer and further between. (How did Pseudomonas spread so far and,
apparently, so quickly, by the way?)
This forum is an amazing source of information about all sorts of
things, not the least of which is the distribution and frequency of
pests, diseases & other dysfunction amongst our tree population. I
wonder if it couldn't be harnessed, feeding back to (say) Forest
Research - I can't help but think they'd have a much better idea of
what's going on where if they didn't rely solely on the number of
queries they get from the public. Especially given the apparent demise
of the Survey of Non-Woodland Trees. 


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