Many people driving back roads in the area have seen what looks like a purple shoe box dangling from a tree branch. It's not a clever marketing trick being used by a new shoe store. If one were to ...

Q: You taught us recently about the trees that you think are ornamental pears that are so colorful now. I'm curious about the trees that are a dark plum color now. Some are sort of short and there ...

Not all of the trees housing traps will be ash, however. "Although EAB only infests ash trees, in some circumstances we may need to place traps in nearby trees that are not ash trees," Marshall said. ...

Emerald ash borer is an invasive wood-boring beetle that attacks only true ash species (green ash, white ash, black ash, purple ash) and can kill the ash tree in two to four years.

The traps, which can be seen hanging in various ash trees throughout north Florida, are purple three-sided boxes coated with a sticky substance called Tanglefoot.

I think you'll be very happy with an autumn purple ash. They really are a lovely tree. I wouldn't do any pruning right now even though the tree is a little lopsided.

Skaneateles, NY -- So what's with the highly visible, purple box hanging high up on a tree along Route 321? It's an emerald ash borer trap, one of more than 150 scheduled to be put up in Onondaga ...

The state, along with the help of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has hung more than 900 of these purple traps, nicknamed Barney traps after the cartoon dinosaur, from ash trees ...

Anyone seen these purple kite-like things hanging in Baltimore area trees? No, they’re not a form of Ravens worship. They’re glue-smeared traps to detect an invasive beetle from Asia that’s ...

Emerald ash borer beetles infest and kill green and white varieties of ash trees, including the popular autumn purple ash. Approximately 15% of urban trees are ash trees, according to the city.

The two most planted trees in this area that fit that description would be the purple leaf plum, or ornamental plum, and the Raywood ash. The ornamental plum is best known for the bloom it offers ...