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Jun 30, 2023 7:27 AM CST
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Fairhope, Alabama
Please help me to keep my bushes. This is on 2 of mine. it's on the branches and leaves.
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Jun 30, 2023 7:38 AM CST
Name: Steve
SE PA (Zone 7a)
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Looks like scale to me.
On small infestations I would use 70% rubbing alcohol and spray the plant down once a week for a few weeks.

Your plant is really infested. You may want to try a systemic insecticide.
I myself do not like using systemic insecticides.
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Jun 30, 2023 8:42 AM CST
Name: Zoƫ
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For large scale infestations, horticulture oil is recommended, but should be used in cool weather. Isopropyl alcohol should be diluted for plant application, and can be used for houseplants or smaller outbreaks. Anything you spray must thoroughly coat every single scale, and anything you spray on the leaves in direct sun or hot weather risks injury to your plants.

Recommend you read up on these nasty pests to understand their life cycle and various remedies. When you look at images, remember that scales come in many shapes and colors and different scales attack different species of plants, but control and eradication is the same.

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/pr...

https://www.thespruce.com/how-...

If you choose to use a systemic, shear off all flowers for the rest of the year to avoid harming pollinator insects. Here's some info about that:
https://xerces.org/systemic-in....
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Jul 1, 2023 5:51 AM CST
Name: Sally
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agreed on scale. Is that a euonymus?

I've had outbreaks of eunymus scale. One hint was to rake and trash all fallen leaves and debris under the plants- it seems to have helped. The scale outbreaks were transient over time- not a death knell nor permanent.
Plant it and they will come.
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Jul 1, 2023 2:40 PM CST
Name: Al F.
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The most efficacious way to eliminate a significant scale infestation would be to use a systemic insecticide mixed with water. For a few plants that can't be sprayed, a soil drench using Imidacloprid will do the trick. It comes by the quart or gallon and is packaged sometimes as a 1.47% solution spray solution and sometimes as a 1.47% soil drench. Spraying works better on woody plants, but be sure to wet the entire plant.
This product can be used as a soil drench or spray:
https://bonide.com/product/ann...

There is also a product, made to be sprayed, that has a systemic insecticide (Imidacloprid), a systemic fungicide (Tebuconazole), and a miticide (Tau-valfluvinate). It's called BioAdvanced 3-in-1 for Insects Disease and Mites. I use the product immediately below primarily in fall before I bring my plants in for the winter. It controls nearly all insects with rasping/sucking mouth parts for the entire winter (indoors).
https://www.domyown.com/bio-ad...

If I do have a major outbreak, I treat twice at a 2 week interval.

A plant's best defense is a high level of vitality. The better the metabolic machinery is operating, the more natural defense chemicals a plant synthesizes. Insects have an amazing ability to detect stressed plants, and will fly by hundreds of healthy plants until they detect one that's vulnerable. Most often, plants that are suffering insect herbivory were already struggling from stress related to one or more conditions related to the cultural hand it's been dealt, often a problem in the root zone, but on the list are too much/ too little of water, nutrients, light, heat, ..... even air pollution can take a heavy toll on many plants.

Al
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