Polly I hope you never do it really is a monster from what I read it is known to occur only through out the central US but has been more prevelant in Texas, Oklahoma,Kansas,Nebraska parts of MIssouri and to a much lesser extent Iowa and Indiana. Thats what leads me to think it has something to do with our winter weather knowing that it has to have a host (insect) to survive we just did not get cold enough to kill all the bugs this year. Which is why I think it made it this far North when very few cases of it have been reported in Iowa. I remember thinking how nice it was to work outside in January there was no frost in the ground and I got a lot of my roses and other dead foilage cleaned up and enjoyed getting my hands in the dirt again but with the heat and extreme drought we have this summer we certaintly paid a price for it.
