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Please help- My Japanese Snowbell tree has scales, how do I get rid of them?

Posted on 2008 under organic insecticide | 3 Comments

12 Oct

I believe their called scales, those nasty little bugs that lay a cotton-like egg nest under leaves. They look like a tiny brown circle & they suck out sap from my tree, then it looks sickly. It's happened 2 yrs in a row, now they just came back.

We've had the tree sprayed with organic insecticide & we've used safer soap last yr, nothing seems to get rid of those bugs! And they usually spread from my snowbell to my Japanese maples & Yoshino tree. Please help!

parafin based dormant oil such as SunSpray (which i believe you can get at any box stores such as Lowe's and Home Depot)

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3 Comments so far »

  1. by reynwater, on October 13 2008 @ 4:45 am

     

    cotton balls and alcohol

    attack, show no mercy

    good luck
    References :

  2. by rustskipper, on October 13 2008 @ 5:18 am

     

    Hey shichimeitozoku,

    Check out the Horticultural Oils. This is purchased in a concentrate and diluted 1 part to 100 parts water. I had to buy 2.5 gallons, it will be a long time before I use 250 gallons of it, but only $40.00 total. If you bring a sample to your local County Extension Agent (where you get a soil sample too), they can help you ID the pest. When you know your enemy, you know their weakness – then you can pick the proper treatment.
    References :
    http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05569.html
    http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/PHC/hortoil.htm

  3. by ohiorganic, on October 13 2008 @ 6:03 am

     

    parafin based dormant oil such as SunSpray (which i believe you can get at any box stores such as Lowe's and Home Depot)
    References :

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