Fertilizer Soil Injection & Insect & Disease Control

Scale is a common insect found in warm, dry environments. The scale bug is small, oval and flat, with a protective tan to brown like covering. Scale comes in a variety of forms most notably and most invasive is armored scale and soft scale. They target the underside of leaves and the leaf steam joints. Due to being highly destructive and invasive to plants they can take over and destroy not only one of your plants but all of them. Once mature they become more difficult to control. It is imperative to find them in the early stages. Once soft scale bugs are matured they can also encourage the development of sooty mold due to excreting large of amounts of honeydew. Sooty mold is a black colored mold that interferes with the process of photosynthesis.

Bagworms build a silken bag around themselves until matured. Males once mature emerge from their bags as moths. Female remain in the bag laying a few hundred eggs until dropping from the bag and dying. Bagworms are considered perennial insects, and can be found in junipers, spruce, pine, willow, apple, maple, elm, birch and cedar trees. Bagworms are most destructive as caterpillars and larvae. They feed on foliage leaving holes in leafs causing the foliage to fall and leave the tree bare. You can typically find evidence of bagworms June-August.

Tent caterpillars are commonly found in black cherry, choke cherry and scrub apple trees. You can also find them less often in Hawthorne, maple, cherry, peach, pear and plum trees. They are a invasive concern for all trees affected. They can cause an outbreak in acres of trees at a time and left untreated can affect the tree for anywhere from 2-4 years.

Gypsy Moth caterpillars can be massively destructive to any plant, tree, or shrub. They eat through the plant in a remarkably quick fashion destroying foliage of any plant, tree, or shrub. It is imperative to quickly treat in order to restore the health and foliage of your trees, plants, and shrubs.

Lace Bugs are pests primarily of ornamental trees and shrubs, although several species infest a few vegetables. Most lace bugs feed on only one type of plant. They damage plants by sucking the sap and cell contents from the undersides of the leaves, producing a mottling or speckling on the upper surfaces. Lace Bug damage often resembles leafhopper or spider mite damage. However, lace bugs excrete drops of shiny, varnish-like excrement, which accumulates around them as they feed. Several generations of lace bugs occur each year. Certain lace bugs may build up to such tremendous numbers on their host plant that very little green tissue remains to produce food for the plant.