April showers bring May flowers, and a little more. With all this precipitation and cooler weather, it promotes great growth for most plants as well as a lot of bacterias and fungus. We talked with Jacob Weber from the wildcat extension program as he explained it’s prime season for what's called Cedar Apple Rust. Cedar Apple Rust is an infection that grows from the stems of a Cedar tree and grow into a tumor like object about the size of a meatball and is sometimes described to look like a flower. With this colder weather those gulls will start to release spores that will try and find a host. Jacob Weber says the infection needs a secondary host so the Cedar tree is not at risk of infection. It is Apple trees that are most prone, when the spores infect the apple tree it will begin to create small yellow and brown spots throughout the leaves. Weber says in extreme cases it will turn the tree almost a complete yellowish color. Be weary of Apple trees around Cedar trees as this is the time these gulls will start to form, and maybe as important, think of your neighbors trees as well.