Have a small grove of 20' and higher live oaks next to a recently built
house out by Wimberley. These had many problems and had a hard time this
season. Aphids out the ying-yang, lotta dead limbs, boring holes at former
limb locations, carpenter ants at number and abundance I've never seen,
crusty/flaky bark of blue-green color spread throughout, and the pinkish
brown berry balls on the leaves.

Gonna get alot of flack for this, treated for the carpenter ants by local
bug killer company. Sprayed fungicide 3 times at two week intervals.
Sprayed twice for aphids. Cut off the majority of the dead limbs. Left
boric acid at the former branch/trunk where a hole exists now on older,
larger holes. Leaf and new limb rebound is evident. The little balls on
the leaves haven't returned on the new ones. Guess the little wasps moved
someplace else. The wasps were abundant in June/July on the front porch.
Very noisy critters for their size when stuck behind something like a open
window shutter.

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Lil' Dave
Beware the rule quoters, the corp mindset, the Borg
Else you will be absorbed
"Scarlett" wrote in message
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We have noticed what appears to be red "berries" attached to the leaves of
our large Live Oak tree. Does anyone know what they are and how they got
there?

Many thanks!

Linda