Support unsteady trees with extra support by staking them and water them consistently after.

Apr 16, I'm sure you have noticed the yellow pollen all over the place. Once the stamens have released their pollen, the entire catkins fall from the tree. The female flowers are much smaller, in fact Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

Mar 26, Pine catkin sawflies emerge from the soil in February and lay eggs on the male cone buds of pine trees. Pine trees produce male cones, which Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.

Dec 14, If your tree is shedding stringy stuff in spring, it might be engaging in its annual flowering where the long male catkins let loose pounds of yellow pollen and then fall from the tree as new. May 04, It was covered with tiny, pale yellow grub-like insect larvae! So, one question answered: That’s what’s falling from the trees, and probably what the warblers are eating.

But many questions remain: What are these things? Hatchling caterpillars, or some other kind of insect? Why are so many falling from the trees?Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Sep 28, American chestnut (Castanea dentata) used to be one of the most widespread native trees in North America, but a fungus blight wiped out most of them.

Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) or hybrids between the two species are more likely to be found nowadays. The leaves are oval-shape with serrated edges. Fall color is yellow or bronze.

The greenish fruits appear in early summer and remain on the tree until fall. Apr 28, As you probably know, the yellow dust covering everything that doesn’t move this time every year is pine pollen. Pine trees produce large (very large) amounts of pollen each spring in. After a hard rain last week, I noticed stuff falling from my Elm and Oak trees.

The one in our front lawn in Michigan was a very small tree that stayed small and the branches grew out.

I assumed it was pollen. I had to go into town later on and when getting in my truck I noticed the windshirld was covered in this pollen, but on further investigation I saw that thety were very tiny maggot looking things, smaller than a grain of rice, like you said.