Our maple
tree is big and old and its branches cover our whole front yard. It's our friend and keeps our house cool in the summer.
We have been noticing this
spring that its leaves have some sort of black blight on them. If you stand on the ground and look up, you can see this blight all the way up into the top branches.
When you look at a leaf, the black blight seems to be making the leaves curl. It's as if something has taken away part of the leaf and the remainder has turned black. There are no holes in the leaf; rather the black part is just thinner than the rest of the leaf.
We see no bug or pests or anything that could be causing this. We are scared because we really really don't want to lose this big old grandfather
tree.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what the cause could be and/or what we can do to get our
tree healthy again?
The weather in our area has been normal and it doesn't seem as though it could be a factor.
Thanks.