Dearborn SHINES David Susko PhD 2021-April-08 MGAWC
Dr. Susko’s presentation at the April MGAWC membership meeting is on YouTube.
Michigan's Sentinel Tree Monitoring Network
Here’s a link to the citizen science project proposed for members and others to do.
According to the website: “Use the New Sentinel Tree or Annual Data options to record your tree data. New Sentinel Trees will require you to identify the tree location on a simple Google Map and record your first observation. Annual Observation data is recorded once a year for all Sentinel Trees in your network.”
Dean Krauskopf, Ph.D., would like to expand the reach of this citizen science project which is suitable for interested adults and kids. There are many tree species to choose from on the MISIN website. You pick the tree or trees that you want to adopt. It can be in any county, in your backyard, in a park, up north, anywhere convenient for you to visit at least once a year, any time of year.
Invasive species tend to move into new areas by planes, trains, trucks and automobiles, so adopting trees near the airport, train tracks, highways, and rest stops might be especially valuable, but starting in your backyard is great.
The initial selection and identification might take 15-20 minutes including using a tape measure to measure the diameter. The next step is visiting the website to establish the new tree in the network of sentinel trees. After that, return to the tree to observe for about 10 minutes annually and then to the website to record any changes. For tall trees, you might want to bring binoculars to get a better look toward the top.
Dean Krauskopf's Presentation, 11 February 2021
Links Provided by Dr. Dean Krauskopf
In process of formatting links
CLIMATE & WEATHER
USDA Midwest Climate Hub: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/midwest
Drought Portal: https://www.drought.gov/
Enviroweather: https://enviroweather.msu.edu/
Frost Dates: https://mrcc.illinois.edu/VIP/frz_maps/freeze_maps.html#frzMaps
Plant Heat Zone Map: http://solanomg.ucanr.edu/files/245158.pdf
Koppen Climate Classification System: https://www.thesustainabilitycouncil.org/resources/thekoppen-climate-classification-system/
American Rose Trials for Sustainability: https://www.americanrosetrialsforsustainability.org/
Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year Walters Gardens: https://www.waltersgardens.com/photo_essay.php?ID=95
All American Selections: https://allamericaselections.org/
MSU Horticulture Trial Gardens:
Vineland Hardy Roses: http://www.49throses.com/
Boxwood Blight: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/preventing-the-spread-of-boxwood-blight-inlandscapes
Resistant Varieties: https://plantpathology.ces.ncsu.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2013/05/final-Cult-trials-summary-2013.pdf?fwd=no
Crackling boxwoods: https://bygl.osu.edu/index.php/node/1499
Boxwood Blight Insight Group: https://www.boxwoodhealth.org/
Boxwood cultivars ranked by resistance to boxwood blight: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jeh/article/38/2/50/436815/Ranking-Resistance-of-BuxusCultivars-to-Boxwood
Box Tree Moth: https://www.firstdetector.org/sites/firstdetector.org/files/EmergingThreats_BoxTreeMoth.pdf
Bushel and Berry: https://www.bushelandberry.com/
Oak Wilt:
Beech Leaf Disease:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/mysterious-disease-strikingamerican-beech-trees
https://www.dontmovefirewood.org/pest_pathogen/beech-leaf-disease/
Beech Bark Disease: https://www.canr.msu.edu/uploads/files/e2746.pdf
Rose Rosette Disease: https://roserosette.org/
Field diagnostic test: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31222494
Monarch Watch: https://www.monarchwatch.org/
Which milkweed species do Monarchs prefer: https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/which-milkweeds-do-monarch-butterfliesprefer/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
https://www.canr.msu.edu/msumilkweedregrow/
Emerald Ash Borer: http://www.emeraldashborer.info/
Genes for resistance to Emerald Ash Borer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1209-3
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: https://www.canr.msu.edu/ipm/invasive_species/brown_marmorated_stink_bug
Biocontrol of Marmorated Stink bug arrives in US on it’s own: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/scientists-spent-years-plan-import-wasp-killstinkbugs-then-it-showed-its-own
Lily leaf beetle (Red lily beetle, Scarlett lily leaf beetle): https://ag.umass.edu/greenhousefloriculture/fact-sheets/lily-leaf-beetle/
Hemlock Wooly Adelgid: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/invasives/HWA_Bulletin_518429_7.pdf
https://www.canr.msu.edu/uploads/resources/pdfs/hwa_tip_sheet.pdf
How to stop Spotted Lanternfly: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-is-thespotted-lanternfly-180975778/
MSU Spotted Lanternfly website: https://www.canr.msu.edu/ipm/invasive_species/spotted-lanternfly
Midwest Invasive Species Information Network: https://www.misin.msu.edu/
Eyes on the Forest: https://iforest.misin.msu.edu/
National Plant Board: https://nationalplantboard.org/
Cooperative Invasive Species Management Areas: https://www.michigan.gov/invasives/0,5664,7-324-68072---,00.html
Heat treatment increases color and antioxidants in tomato: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925521420308863#:~:text=In%20conclusion%2C%20application%20of%20a,without%20severely%20impairing%20color%20development
Standardization of Terms Used to Describe Resistance: https://www.hriresearch.org/sites/default/files/TerminologyWhitePaper-AH-HRI.pdf
Discussion of terms: https://www.growertalks.com/Newsletters/View/?article=3269
Phages for bacteria control: https://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/ways-phages-can-stymiestubborn-fruit-crop-pests/
Bee Vectoring: http://www.beevt.com/
Pest Control Fungicide Resistance Action Committee: https://www.frac.info/
Insecticide Resistance Action Committee: https://www.irac-online.org/
National Pesticide Information Center: http://npic.orst.edu/
MSU IPM: https://www.canr.msu.edu/ipm/
3 Diagnostic lab/soil test lab operations:
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/plant-and-soil-servicelabs-open-during-covid-19-shutdowns
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/how-do-i-get-a-soil-test-kitwhen-offices-are-closed
MSU CANR Outreach: https://www.canr.msu.edu/outreach/
Buckeye Yard and Garden Online: https://bygl.osu.edu/
Garden A to Z.org: http://gardenatoz.org/
Garden Professors: http://gardenprofessors.com/
Michigan Gardener: https://www.michigangardener.com/
Citizen Science:
EBird (Cornell): https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001158707-get-startedwith-ebird
iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/UF/IFAS
Citizen tomato tests: http://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/2021/01/12/global-gardeners-help-uf-tomatobreeding-program-will-send-growth-flavor-data-to-lab/
GMOs: https://www.canr.msu.edu/gmos
Degradation of biodegradable plant containers: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11270-020-04866-7
Recycling plastic plant containers: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/go_green_which_horticultural_plastics_can_be_recycled_and_where
In home veggie growing module: https://gropod.io/
LaborSaver Pots https://www.h2olaborsaver.com/h2o-labor-saver.html
Woody Plants and Tree ID with Roy Prentice, Tollgate Farm Manager
Per request, slide from Roy’s highly informative presentation on trees in southeastern Michigan
GardenAtoZ.org's License to Garden During Winter
License to garden on
Winter's time for garden fun
Indoors and out, we're still gardening. No sense letting boredom, weather or the pandemic get you down. Keep on moving and growing. If you are out of ideas and motivation, recharge, on us!
We have been shut in far too often by pandemic concerns this year. Don't stay in now unless you truly want to. Bundle up and go out, because there's plenty you can be doing in the garden. Weeding, pruning, designing and more, described and illustrated in Winter Work List on GardenAtoZ.org
https://gardenatoz.org/whats-up/this-week-in-our-gardens/winter-work-list/
No Bugs, No Birds! Additional Resources from Griffin Bray
Books
All of the books listed below provide information on how to create a bird-friendly garden. Bringing Nature Home and Nature’s Best Hope also provide information on the ecological reasons for native gardening.
· Darke, Rick, and Douglas Tallamy. The Living Landscape. Timber Press, 2014.
· Daniels, Jaret. Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies: Upper Midwest. Adventure Publications, 2020.
· Nowak, Mariette. Birdscaping in the Midwest. University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
· Tallamy, Douglas. Bringing Nature Home. Timber Press, 2007.
· Tallamy, Douglas. Nature's Best Hope. Timber Press, 2020.
Websites and PDFs
A PDF from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that gives a brief explanation of how to create a garden for the birds.
· Michigan Native Garden Design for the Birds!
A PDF from Michigan Audubon showing various designs for bird-friendly gardens, including location tips and plant lists.
· Habitat Hints: 12 Ways to Help Migrating and Nesting Birds
A webpage by Saving Birds Through Habitat (written by the EIC’s own Rick Simek) outlining some ways to help birds thrive in your yard.
· Insect Usage of Trees and Shrubs
A PDF from Kalamazoo Wild Ones with woody plant genera ranked by the number of insects they support.
· Michigan Native Plants for Bird-friendly Landscapes
A PDF from Michigan Audubon with suggested plants for bird-friendly landscapes and how they help to support birds.
A website with information about the growing conditions of a variety of plant species from trees and shrubs to flowers and graminoids.
· National Audubon Society Native Plants Database
A webpage by the National Audubon Society with complete lists of native plant species that help to support birds in your local zip code. Results can be filtered by plant type, type of birds they attract, and the reason that they attract them (e.g. fruit, nectar, insects).
· National Wildlife Federation Native Plant Finder
A website by the NWF that shows the best native plants for supporting insects in your local zip code. Results can be filtered by type of plant (woody or herbaceous), and each plant listing will show examples of the caterpillars that it will feed.
A list of selected native plant nurseries in Michigan from the Wildflower Association of Michigan.
No Bugs, No Birds 23-minute Video
The Importance of Native Trees in Re-stitching Native Bird Diversity and Abundance Back into Urban and Suburban Areas created by Griffin Bray and Rick Simek, Environmental Interpretive Center, UM-Dearborn
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8e4cbe4407a54b1cb7d115322f06cf5b
Rain Garden Article
Links Provided by Dr. Dean Krauskopf in April
WEATHER
National Weather Service Detroit: https://www.weather.gov/dtx/
Enviroweather: https://enviroweather.msu.edu/
Drought Monitor: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Michigan Climate Trends: https://www.michiganradio.org/post/four-michigan-climate-trends-keep-watching-2019
RAIN GARDENS University of Connecticut: https://nemo.uconn.edu/raingardens/
BOXWOOD BLIGHT: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/boxwood-blight-disease-identified-in-michigan
Resistant Varieties: https://plantpathology.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/final-Cult-trials-summary-2013.pdf?fwd=no
Impatiens Downy Mildew Resistant Varieties: https://www.greenhousegrower.com/varieties/panamerican-seed-new-impatiens-offers-downy-mildew-resistance/
SPOTTED LANTERNFLY:
Help Monarch Butterflies, cut down your milkweed: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/14/monarch-butterflies/3143484002/
Plant Nervous System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeLSyU_iI9o&feature=youtu.be
https://www.futurity.org/plants-leaves-calcium-signals-1865592/
Biochar: https://regenerationinternational.org/2018/05/16/what-is-biochar/
GYPHOSATE
Correlation and Causality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B271L3NtAw
2017 EPA Revised Glyphosate Issue Paper: Evaluation of Carcinogenic Potential. EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs, https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_file_download.cfm?p_download_id=534487
ReLeaf Michigan: https://www.releafmichigan.org/
Tighty-Whitey Test: https://onpasture.com/2016/11/21/tighty-whities-can-tell-you-about-your-soil-health/#comments