The spring season has arrived in Chicago and even though the summer is right around the corner, there is still time to take in the sight of the flowering trees that can be found all throughout Chicagoland. The warmer weather… Read More »Types of Flowering Trees You Will See this Spring in the Chicago Area
Hendricksen Tree Care has been an important part of the community of the Village of Arlington Heights for almost six decades. On June 9, 1966, a tornado touched down within Arlington Heights and shortly after that, Robert Hendricksen, the father… Read More »Hendricksen Tree Care Volunteered Time at Arlington Heights Historical Society
This week, we are going to take a break from talking about pests that can cause damage to your trees and talk about an insect that benefits our ecosystems and your trees: honey bees. More specifically, we are going to… Read More »The Best Tree Species to Support Bees and Other Pollinators in Chicagoland
The beginning of the summer is a great time in the Chicago area. The warm weather is back, and the trees are in full bloom for the growing season. However, the return of warm weather and freshly grown foliage also… Read More »Tent Caterpillars: Identification and Control
We have returned this week with our series on the common tree diseases and insect pests in Illinois to investigate a set of tree diseases that can attack the leaves, branches, and fruit of many different types of trees: tree… Read More »Tree Blight: Identification, Symptoms, and Control
We are back with our series on the common tree diseases and insect pests in Illinois with a closer look at a dangerous fungal disease, verticillium wilt. Verticillium wilt is known to affect more than 350 species of flowering plants… Read More »Verticillium Wilt: Identification, Symptoms, and Control
Just about every living thing on Earth from animals to plants needs water to survive. When it comes to plants, the water they receive typically comes from rain and humidity. However, mother nature does not always provide enough water for… Read More »Tips to Effectively Water Your Trees
Today we continue with our series on the common tree diseases and insect pests in the Chicago area to discuss an invasive pest, the Japanese beetle. Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) are native to Japan but considered an invasive species in… Read More »Japanese Beetles: Identification, Control, and Prevention
This summer in the Chicago area is going to be different than previous summers. Sure, Illinois is in Phase 4 of the re-opening plan, but the threat of COVID-19 is not gone. This will likely motivate people to continue to… Read More »How to Make my Chicagoland Backyard a Staycation Oasis
We return this week with our series on the common tree diseases and insect pests in the Chicago area with a closer look at a pest responsible for widespread defoliation, the gypsy moth. The gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar), also… Read More »Gypsy Moth: Identification and Prevention
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