Lamium purpureum, aka Red dead-nettle, offers a valuable early pasture to bumblebees, such as Bombus terrestris and Bombus pascuorum, and honeybees. Be patient, let them enjoy for a while, before spading your vegetable garden. Help protect pollinators!!!
Camellia japonica "Oki-no-nami" (Ocean waves) supposed to show flowers in spring, fully in bloom in February in Lombardy. Earlier and earlier blooming along the years, due to mild winters. Is it linked to #ClimateChange?
#Urban #Trees (23): roots and trunk protections must be checked regularly, widened when tight or removed, to prevent damages to trees' collar.
#TreeClimbing is the best technique for inspecting trees' canopy and for selective pruning, reaching small branches and avoid causing damages to mature trees'.
๐Apple internal browning is a physiological disorder associated with later harvested, large, and over mature fruit and with CO2 concentration in storage. The fruit appears normal from outside, without symptoms. Once opened, It reveals...
#Urban #Trees (22): access of heavy machinery for maintenance of mature or historic parks must consider soil conditions to prevent soil compaction and damages to trees' roots, favoring pathogens attacks to roots and triggering trees' decline.
Mild winter temperatures in northern Lombardy fool primeroses, blooming months erlier than what it is expected. With current climate change trend, this phenomenon affects many plants.
People in #Gaza are still living in dire conditions.
Their homes collapsed, their tents are torn by the winter weather.
They need more food, more medicine, more shelter supplies.
Humanitarian aid is available. UNRWA and other aid organisations are still working.
Lift the aid restrictions.
Do not judge me only from the bend! Trees stability evaluation requires a careful assessment of many parameters, using suitable technology if necessary. The place where a potentially dangerous tree is located can constitute an aggravating factor in the risk assessment.
Il dono di Natale fuori stagione della camelia "Oki-no-nami": Onde sull'oceano. Un unico fiore, inatteso. Sereno Natale a tutti!!!
Autumn and Winter let best appreciate the beauty of #PlatanusAcerifolia, London Plane, bark. This species is well adapted to difficult living condition of urban environment, where it also contributes to our quality of life with shade and air purification.
Autumn beauty: mature Lombardy poplars and spectacular London Plane trees in Villa Mylius, Varese.
The presence in these days of fruiting bodies of #Armillaria, #HoneyMushrooms, in your orchard or garden is not a good sign. To prevent attacks of this parasitic fungi keep your trees in good health, avoid water stagnation and heavy pruning!
#Urban #Trees (21): pruning big branches or not respecting the collar area lead to open wounds through which fungi agents of wood decay can easily enter trees. For maintaining healthy trees, prune wisely and properly, considering trees anatomy and physiology!
#Urban #Trees (20): superficial structural #roots of trees such as Norway spruce can be heavily damaged by improper use of lawnmowers tractors, favoring pathogens attack and trees decline, leading to death.
Interlaminar serpentine mines caused by the larvae of the lepidopteran #PhyllocnistisCitrella, a potted lime tree leaves in Ispra, northern Italy. Damage visible from upper and lower surface. Possible established population of the pest in the area. Pictures: courtesy Chiara Magliozzi.
On Sept 13th ๐our Eugenio Gervasini & Beatrice Melone will stage the storytelling play "Dialoghi alieni sulla Biodiversitร " at CNR event โ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐-๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐โ ๐ in Bologna.
A journey through the canal nature, ending with a fictional debate on invasive species ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐http://bit.ly/3JNfION
Impressive death of Norway spruce trees, Picea excelsa, caused by the #BarkBeetle #IpsTypographus in Val Badia, South Tyrol. Experts consider this massive attack a legacy of the storm Vaia, which knocked down 42,500 ha of woods in northern Italy in 2018. Increasing temperatures favored the beetle.
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Join this panel to share results, methods, frameworks, and debates in #AgriFood Citizen Science.
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Anthonomus bisignifer adult (Source: Pest and Diseases Image Library, Bugwood.org)
![Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier [chiloensis ร virginiana]) cultivation (Source: Ko Ko Maung, Bugwood.org)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhxzgylocvh2wmkqhjha75zb/bafkreiech7kbt77cbvocdfunhlk66ass4ydgppuj4agu37g7bzlb72hany)
Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duchesne ex Rozier [chiloensis ร virginiana]) cultivation (Source: Ko Ko Maung, Bugwood.org)
๐ขNew pest survey card: #Anthonomus bisignifer & A. signatus
๐Protect strawberries and other important crops from these pests. Strengthen your surveillance efforts with this resource.
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This looks like Vespa velutina, known as Asian Hornet, an i'vasive alien species of Union concern according to EU Regulation 1143/2014, a bees predator.
#PopilliaJaponica, #JapaneseBeetle, host preference: Betula utilis var. jacquemontii, Himalayan birch, with canopy completely skeletonized in the foreground, compared to untouched Betula pendula in the background.
L'alternariosi del pomodoro, causata dal fungo patogeno #AlternariaSolani, ha un optimum di temperatura tra i 25 e i 35 gradi con elevata umidita'. Per questo si osserva facilmente adesso negli orti familiari. Efficaci distanza tra piante, trattamenti con rame e pulizia foglie.
#HorsechestnutLeafBlotch typical internerval symptoms, caused by the fungus #GuignardiaAesculi, has been favored by last weeks heavy rain and high humidity in northern Lombardy, Italy. Damages mostly aesthetic, removal of dead leaves is useful to control future infections.
Rosure da #HeliothisArmigera, nottua del pomodoro. Le larve di questo lepidottero nottuide hanno causato gravi danni nel Canton Ticino (Svizzera) a fagioli, piselli, ceci e mais dolce coltivati in pieno campo, e pomodori, melanzane e peperoni in serra. bit.ly/46JiiPd
Yellowish apperance of #NorwaySpruce tips due the infection of the fungus #ChrysomixaRhododendri, which completes its cycle between Rhododendron and Picea abies, observed in Valle Verzasca, Switzerland, on 27.07, at about 1.500 mt a. s. l.
Parasite fungus #ExobasidiumRhododendri gall-like bodies on Rhododendron plants in Valle Verzasca, Switzerland, about 1,700 mt a.s.l., on 27.07.
This study revealed important fragmentation in communication strategies within and across key European biodiversity research structures.
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#CamerariaOhridella, #HorseChestnutLeafMiner, #InvasiveAlienSpecies moth, once a plague, has become an entomological curiosity in Lombardy, with its typical leaf mines.
Autumn appearance of birches, which leaves have been skeletonized by the #InvasiveAlienSpecies #PopilliaJaponica #Japanese beetle in Varese province, today.
