Japanese Beetle Tree Damage
Buckley Tree performed a tree consolation, worked out a personalized plant health care program to treat for Japanese Beetles and provided the tree care follow-up ensuring the Japanese beetles don’t return. Buckley Tree’s professional tree care service restores insect infested and damaged trees to their previous beauty.
This linden tree suffered from the harmful effects of the Japanese Beetle. Japanese Beetles feast on leaves of trees, resulting in unhealthy, skeletal-looking trees. While simple insecticides can successfully protect smaller plants, trees infested with Japanese Beetles require follow-up tree care and treatments.
Japanese Beetle Facts:
- Affects a wide range of plants, but especially linden, birch, flowering crabs and many different shrubs.
- Beetles fly in from surrounding area and feed on the leaves leaving a “skeletonized” appearance.
- Affected plants become unsightly and stressed.
- Foliar sprays can reduce populations, but follow up inspections and treatments may be needed.
- Soil insecticide treatments have been effective at reducing damage.
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