Samples with the following problems have been seen in the Clinic recently:

• Anthracnose on maple
• Botryosphaeria tip blight on oak
• Dutch elm disease
• Fire blight on pear
• Iron chlorosis on oak
• Leaf spot and melting out of turfgrass
• Maple bladder gall
• Rhizosphaera needle cast on spruce
• Raspberry leaf spot
• Slime mold on lawn
• Spruce spider mites on arborvitae
• Sulfur shelf fungi (see this week's article)

Insects identified this week in the Clinic include:

• Carpenter ants in trees
• Sand chafer, aka False Japanese Beetle
• Leafcurl Ash Aphid

Slime Mold: A slime mold, likely Fuligo septica, the "dog-vomit fungus," found on a lawn in Johnson County. Photo by Missy Watje, Johnson County Extension.

Leafcurl Ash Aphid Damage: Deformation of ash leaflets caused by leafcurl ash aphid. Photo by Aleta Cochran Dallas County Extension