Recent content by AllenNichols

It was my thought that the trees started to leaf our and then suddenly died. That is exactly what happed to some of my best trees and they looked like that and I could see the small staining marks on the trunk where they had bored in to lay eggs. I am not sure just what insect it was though...

That is NOT chestnut blight. Trees to not die from the blight that fast. That is caused by the Ambrosia Beedle or possibly the Two Lined Chestnut Beedle. I had several of my best trees start to wilt in the early spring a few years ago and they were dead in just a couple of weeks. Check the bark...