Tree Care Information from Experienced Certified Arborists

Eric Carle originally published his children’s book in 1969 about a caterpillar that eats everything in its path and eventually turns into a beautiful butterfly, enjoyed by all. There is another side to this story – this time instead of a beautiful butterfly the caterpillar turns into a regular colored moth.

The various relationships between Mycorrhizae and a tree’s roots are referred to as “symbiotic” since they both benefit by promoting each other. Learn how we can promote a mycorrhizal network in our soils to benefit a tree’s overall health.

Our team needs to be proficient in physical exercise to keep your trees healthy and beautiful. At Wachtel Tree Science we promote, encourage, and look out for one another to assure that we are all taking care of our bodies.

Magnolia scale is one of many types of scale that affects trees and is a difficult pest to control. Learn how it impacts your trees and how to get scale under control.

There is a danger present that is now unseen – hidden in the weeds but ready to strike! This danger is very dry subsoil hiding under a camouflage of mud. Learn what can be done.

Meet Brooke Stemple, a Production Arborist and Consulting Arborist. Get to know Brooke and learn why she enjoys working at Wachtel Tree Science.

Our comprehensive guide to tree maintenance will walk you through the best time for a tree treatment, when to prune a tree, and more to keep your trees healthy.

Learn more about why tree cable techniques and tree bracing techniques are used, and if you need our services on your property.

Wisconsin root fertilizer for trees is a part of the overall plan to help protect tree through the rough winters, storms, and various other external threats.

There are a few ways to look at the effects of EAB: Do nothing and remove ash trees as they are killed by EAB. Proactively remove ash trees in order to lessen the landscape’s dependence on them. Plant non-ash trees to replace losses or to anticipate losses. Treat selected ash trees with the very effective, but more costly, trunk injection of insecticide for 2-years of protection (repeated every 2 years for sustained protection).

Proper tree identification can be tricky. Many trees share similar attributes such as branch and bud configuration, leaf shape, and bark texture, making it easy to mistake one type of tree for another. When it comes to protecting your ash tree against EAB the first step is proper identification.

The warmth causes the dormant Emerald Ash Borers’ metabolism to increase. With its blood pumping faster, the urge to chew its way through the wood to the outside world grows stronger. Soon, very soon…then it can mate, find another suitable ash on which to lay its eggs, and enjoy the rest of the summer in the sun.