On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:46:32 -0400, GuzzisRule wrote:
Do you have some kind of blight where you are? I've lost 3 blue spruced
in the past year, and looking around the area, I see quite a few sickly
blue spruces. I haven't heard of any blights, but the blue spruces
don't look healthy.

I've also got a 1/2 acre of Norway spruces that seem to be thinning out.
I don't think that is a blight though, more likely old age.

I lost a blue spruce to spider mites this past spring. Little *******s
can clean one off in couple days.

Don't know from spider mites, my one blue spruce started having lower
branches die on me over a couple of years. When I cut it down, the trunk
was discolored, so I figured some kind of blight. We did have a wooly
aglid infestation several years ago. It wiped out several once very
pretty ravines in the area. It seems just about any tree around here
eventually gets some sort of a disease. Dutch elm, chestnuts, spider
mites, wooly aglids, etc. etc.