Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1031 - Home & Consumer Horticulture | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1031.1) | 22 |
Number of participants engaged in home and consumer horticulture programming |
Author: Curtis Judy
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
A new disease, laurel wilt, was diagnosed in southwestern Kentucky in the summer of 2019, and it has the potential to rapidly kill sassafras trees. The area around Trenton in southern Todd County appears to be the area worst affected at this time. Laurel wilt is a fungal disease caused by the invasive pathogen Raffaelea lauricola. The disease is transmitted by the wood-boring redbay ambrosia beetle; which prior to the diagnosis of laurel wilt in this area, was only known to exi
