Ah… the wonderful woodsy, evergreen scent of a live-cut Christmas tree. It stirs happy childhood memories as it fills your home with the alpine freshness of a forest. What you probably didn’t anticipate your Christmas tree adding to your home is an army of tiny insects—mostly aphids, spider mites, or tiny mantids. Unlike the pests that Christmas tree growers must ward off to get a tree to market size—voles, pocket gophers, pine grosbeaks, and … [Read more...]