Confirmed in Indiana and spreading, though not yet the everyday problem it is further east. Worth reporting a sighting to the state rather than just treating it. In Plainfield, the most age-mixed canopy of the three: a genuine 1950s ring plus the pre-1900 Quaker core along Main Street (US 40) carries 60-to-90-year-old shade trees over the street, while Saratoga, Sugar Grove Farms and Legacy Farms hold 10-to-25-year-old planted stock, and the White Lick Creek bluffs hold the town's only real remnant woodland. Ash is gone here as everywhere in Indiana. Damages rather than kills most trees, but the honeydew and mould make a yard unusable.
Plainfield's canopy and what's at risk
The most age-mixed canopy of the three: a genuine 1950s ring plus the pre-1900 Quaker core along Main Street (US 40) carries 60-to-90-year-old shade trees over the street, while Saratoga, Sugar Grove Farms and Legacy Farms hold 10-to-25-year-old planted stock, and the White Lick Creek bluffs hold the town's only real remnant woodland. Ash is gone here as everywhere in Indiana.
What to look for
Grey egg masses that look like smeared mud, sticky honeydew and black sooty mould underneath the tree.
Whether the tree can be saved
Damages rather than kills most trees, but the honeydew and mould make a yard unusable.
Timing in Hendricks County
Scrape egg masses in winter; treat nymphs in spring.
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