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Should I remove the tiny, cute, white and red bugs from my Umbrella plant (Variegated Schefflera)?
Your Pokemons are waxy scale, or coccidae. Your description in the comments above is spot on: another name is "tortoise scale".
The Florida wax scale (Ceroplastes floridensis) looks quite similar, ...
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Dying tree with many holes
this looks like ant damage to me; whatever did the damage, there must be some sign of them...
I dont know what kind of tree it is, but it isn't a cherry...
I think this tree is pretty much dead, if ...
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Black beetle identification, crawling on potato plant
Those look like Blister Beetles: http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG295/pics/fig171.gif
They will chew up the leaves, and not just on your potatoes. They are toxic, so just be careful when treating them! More ...
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What's eating my broccoli and kale, and what can I do to prevent it?
Skunks, perhaps but rabbits almost certainly. Have you seen any track? Deer are very obvious as well as any animal's track. This looks like rabbit to me, since I've been feeding rabbits and having ...
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Tips to help an ash tree, trying to grow from the roots of an EAB victim
I agree with the answers from our fellow gardeners Bamboo and Stormy. Grub out the stump now and don't encourage another EAB visit to your neighbourhood. The remnants of the tree will grow until the ...
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Tips to help an ash tree, trying to grow from the roots of an EAB victim
In addition to the answer already given, the appearance of shelf or bracket fungus on the stump means it's dying, or doomed to die, anyway. The fungal mycelium will have invaded the heartwood of the ...
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Tips to help an ash tree, trying to grow from the roots of an EAB victim
Here's the bad news; one NEVER plants the same genus/species in the same place where a disease or insect killed the former inhabitants. EAB
Because of the spread of EAB it is actually ...
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What is this dark leafy vegetable plant? What's causing holes in the leaves, and how can I help it?
This is not swiss chard. This is Tatsoi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsoi
The chard seed looks completely different than the brassica family seed of tatsoi. Tatsoi seed would look identical to ...
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What is this dark leafy vegetable plant? What's causing holes in the leaves, and how can I help it?
It is a Swiss chard.
Just it had too much stress (cold?) so too many gems are awakes quickly, and they started to produce leaves. I would possibly expect also that the chard will start the second-...
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Dying tree with many holes
There is nothing you can do to save the tree at this point: It has been girdled by a sapsucker, which means that the roots are effectively dead.
Knowing that the damage was caused by a bird of that ...
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What harm can moles do to my garden?
They are not a source of anything other than a bit of a nuisance - their tunnels might mean they've destroyed some roots of plants as they make them, but they don't eat plant material. Molehills in ...
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Aphids in my Fuchsia
Aphids are always with us - they're flying insects and can affect indoor plants (especially in summer) as well as outdoor ones. Using a soapy water spray may well kill any which are currently present, ...
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House sparrows ruining my plants. How do i kill them?
You can reduce sparrow numbers by changing what you're feeding the birds. House sparrows tend to like small seeds like corn, oats, wheat, and other types of grain seeds. According to this site, ...
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What's eating my broccoli and kale, and what can I do to prevent it?
Ouch! It hurts to see such damage to your garden. I have very similar symptoms except not to the same extent. In my case (in california) I suspect either squirrels or voles/mice. Have not figured ...
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Why is this boxwood suffering? Is it box blight or an insect-infection?
After Bamboo's answer I checked again and collected around 20 caterpillars just on one plant (50x50cm) and I'm sure I missed some of them.
I checked again for the alert I received from a fellow ...
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Why is this boxwood suffering? Is it box blight or an insect-infection?
If there's webbing amongst the leaves, my money's on box tree caterpillar, although its odd you've not actually noticed the caterpillars themselves yet. Of all the problems Box gets (and its an ever ...
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Little Pests with White cotton around them
They are Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae) and you want to do something about them because they bring other problems like mold with them. Wash the plant down with insect soap which you can get at a hardware ...
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Dying tree with many holes
Yellow belly sapsucker, it likely happened in early spring; they make the holes then come back later to eat any bugs. Unlikely that it caused the tree to die. The tree looks pretty far gone , now ...
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What animals dig surface trench in lawns?
Each spring when the snow recedes, the meadows where we live (Black Forest, Germany) show a true maze of carved-out pathways just like in your pictures.
They are caused by mice that rather burrow at ...
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Are these ants hurting my bush?
No, the ants are not hurting the peony buds or plant in any way. See this answer to a similar question for an explanation.
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Should I remove the tiny, cute, white and red bugs from my Umbrella plant (Variegated Schefflera)?
The best way I've found to rid this plant of scale would be to tear a paper plate, one tear, one radius from edge to the center so that you can put that paper plate on your plant at the base. The ...
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What's eating my broccoli and kale, and what can I do to prevent it?
I just stumbled upon this page and too was curious what is eating your plants. Same thing happened to me two years ago, all of my broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower was being eaten right ...
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What's eating my broccoli and kale, and what can I do to prevent it?
Squirrels would be my guess, also. If we hadn't seen squirrels rooting around in our radish plot, I would never believe they would go for strong tasting vegies. They made short work of them. Our ...
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Are squash bugs a pepper pest?
There are no cases I can find that squash bugs feed on anything in the Nightshade family (such as a pepper). It's unusual for groups of them to congregate on any plant other than a food host, so I don'...
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What's causing small black dots and holes in the leaves of my potted vegetable plants?
Those little black dots are Arterial Fungus. My guess is that you have wood chip mulch near by. The mulch shoots out spores which are especially attracted to light colored objects. Anyone who has ...
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Dealing with mealy bug infestation on jades
First of all, it's not a jade plant but a kalanchoe species as in the photo below.
The name of the plant isn't important but the insects are. Looking carefully at your photos, I can see mealybugs in ...
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Help identifying pest
I suspect red spider mite if worst on the underside of the leaf. The ants may be there because of the mites.
applestar:
try holding a piece of white paper under the stem while the plant is dry and ...
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Will beans or peas grow back after being topped by a deer?
It depends a bit on how much plant material is left, but typically they will grow back.
I regularly pinch off the tops of my young pea plans and serve them in salads and the plants grow back just ...
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Young cherry tree features brown, curled, holed and loss of leaves
I thought you might be in the UK...first thing to say is your tree is planted much too close to the fence behind it, unless, that is, it's Prunus amanogowa, the flagpole cherry. Second, I suspect it ...
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