Answered for Cumberland, Marion County (town limits extend east and north into Hancock County) County.
Common on Indiana maple and linden in mid-summer. In Cumberland, the biggest and oldest trees stand in Old Town along US 40, over houses on a corridor continuously settled since 1831 — that is where a crew will meet 100-plus-year specimens with structures under them on both sides. Buck Creek carries the bottomland canopy, the east-side Hancock County subdivisions date from the 1970s through the 2000s and their canopy is mid-life, and ash has been removed across central Indiana by emerald ash borer; no published street-tree inventory exists for the town. Rarely a health problem for a mature tree.
Cumberland's canopy and what's at risk
The biggest and oldest trees stand in Old Town along US 40, over houses on a corridor continuously settled since 1831 — that is where a crew will meet 100-plus-year specimens with structures under them on both sides. Buck Creek carries the bottomland canopy, the east-side Hancock County subdivisions date from the 1970s through the 2000s and their canopy is mid-life, and ash has been removed across central Indiana by emerald ash borer; no published street-tree inventory exists for the town.
What to look for
Sticky honeydew on everything under the tree, curled leaves, ants running up the trunk, sooty mould following.
Whether the tree can be saved
Rarely a health problem for a mature tree. It's a nuisance problem — the honeydew is what makes people call.
Timing in Marion County (town limits extend east and north into Hancock County) County
Usually resolves on its own as predators build up. Treatment is for the mess, not the tree.
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