Could “potato bugs” or gophers be killing my oak tree?

by admin on March 26, 2009

Jackie A asked:


We are finding a lot of them (potato bugs) in the ground. We are in San Diego & our particular area has very sandy soil. We have seen them before, but many more this year & the tree looks bad. We’ve always had gophers, so I thought I would add that in there too.
Does anyone know what the potato bugs do like &/or why we might have more? Our climate has been so weird (cold!) this year, I assume it’s related but I don’t really know.

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"mags" March 27, 2009 at 1:36 am

if they get under the bark they could kill the tree

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