TREE'S, went to Milwaukee, yesterday, and trees of all kinds were dying, elm's, oaks', ash's, aspens . balsam, spruce, lots of bushes, also, lilac but the maples are still nice and green

Lots of pests in my area. Oak wilt killing oaks, ash borers killing ash, ants killing aspens and balsam. In my yard I have all of these issues going on right now.

Are you sure it's not just hot dry weather making the leaves look like theat. Several spots around here they have curled and turned black brown.

Worst beetle/disease in my life time outbreak has hit here, dead pines everywhere. Big storms this winter it's going to be horrific! Already tree's falling in roads/over power lines everywhere i go. Climate change im sure is the cause.

Haitians

Some pines and beech trees around here.

Elm: Dutch Elm
Oak: Oak Wilt
Ash: Emerald Ash Borer
Spruce: Needle Cast

Emeral ash borer, they have devastated all the ash. You can see it is continuing spreading north. The Nippissing swamp behind our place is wiped out, all ash trees are dead.

I had about 90 acres full of ash die this year on me.

In this area, the last few years the maples are taking a hit from something.

LMAO!!!!!!!

Moosetrot

are we asking about in the city or areas in the burbs?

Emerald ash borer for all the ash , very few left that aren't dead or dying

root rot for a lot of the maples

anything in a low spot was under water all spring and half the summer.

there is a bug I am not sure what effecting many of the pines

I think a bunch of it is collective if it isn't going to fall on someone it isn't being dealt with. so there is multiple years of standing dead wood every where I go in southern WI

2021 was our last hot dry summer
been fairly normal since and this spring and summer was a wet one.
but has been dry for September

I have two burr oak trees in my backyard that have lost all their leaves. Way too early for that to happen.

It's the Packers fault

Had a surge of spruce budworm in my area lots of spruce and some balsam affected seems like every tree that has worth now has its own pest or it burns

Methane gas from all the gazillions of livestock,,, trees just simply got overwhelmed

I doubt they were all “dying”. Lots of trees and shrubs are dropping leaves early because of how dry its been.

Noticed a lilac that greened up, but never had bloom on it this spring.
Noticed a couple weeks ago it looked dead.
Today it had some new leaves , and even a few blooms on it.
I've seen apple trees bloom this time of year also, thinking it's a hot dry spell, then a cool spell, and back to a wet period, and warm spell after.
Nature has it's strange times and ways with coping with droughts.

Here in my neck of the woods in SE Nebraska there seems to be a high number of trees dead or dying just about everywhere. Maybe drought has something to do with it... but I kinda and wondering if the ingredient dicamba used in some chemicals that are made for weed control in corn and other crops. I goggled dicamba and dead trees awhile back. Saw one webb site where a university did a study and found no effects of dicamba on trees. Scrolled down a bit and found another webb site that said a study by a different university found dicamba did indeed hurt trees. I'm 67 years old and have been an outdoor guy all my life and I can say for sure many many more trees are dying here everywhere... way more than a normal year. What is it... depends who you believe I guess.