Common on Indiana maple and linden in mid-summer. 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. Rarely a health problem for a mature tree.
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
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 Hendricks County
Usually resolves on its own as predators build up. Treatment is for the mess, not the tree.
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