Hello All, I have an issue with a very important tree in my back yard. Its a dwarf blue spruce and the needles are dying back from the bottom and inside. It also has some black stuff on some of the nodes. i only saw one bagworm on the the tree and i looked at the needles under a microscope and there is not black fruiting bodies on the stomatas. any ideas? Thanks a lot, ~Kyle~
It's got sucking pests like spruce aphids. The black stuff is called sooty mold, it grows on their poop.
