This email, and a recent local house call made me think it’s time to put aphids on the table for discussion, so to speak: Dear Mr. Pramuk, My neighbours (sic) have a linden tree on their front lawn.

Aphids are tiny insects that feed by sucking sap from plants. In Vancouver, they've grown attached to linden trees, also known as tilias. The pests secrete a sticky substance that coats pavement ...

Dear Jane: We have a large linden tree in our front yard that has been ... on the tree is known as honeydew and is produced by aphids, mealybugs, plant hoppers, soft scales or whiteflies.

Vancouverites who have linden or tulip trees on their streets are probably no stranger to the sap-like substance secreted by aphids and dripped onto cars and sidewalks, but the hot summer weather ...

Typically, aphids will not kill a healthy tree. Other common attacking insects include bark borers, walnut lace bug, Basswood leaf miner, scales and Linden mite. Leaf rust is a major defoliator of ...

Unfortunately, aphids are also fond of the linden's nectar ... isn't enough to get the linden kicked off the city's list of trees officially approved for planting on that right of way between ...

This was the third year the city sprayed trees, primarily to kill aphids, Preston said. While Hillsboro used Safari, the same chemical deployed by a landscape company on 55 linden trees in a ...

“The city had no idea the (linden tree) variety they planted, Tilia Euchlora, was notorious for attracting massive numbers of aphids from May to November,” said Darred. Douglas ...