Problems Your Extension Agents Are Seeing

Insect Problems

Ambrosia Beetles

• Control of Common Pests of Landscape Plants
• Ambrosia Beetles begin flying in Jan and Feb!

Box elder bugs

Soft Scales & Aphids

Scale on holly

Sawfly Larvae (on rose)

Pecan Phylloxera

Carpenter bees

• Management of Pest Insects In and Around the Home 
• FACES article on Carpenter Bees

Galls on oak leaves

Black sooty mold on shrubs

Cellar Spiders in homes

Lots of honey bee calls

• Honey Bee Swarms and Bees in Walls
• Africanized Honey Bees
• Bee Conservation in the Southeast
• Honey Bees and Beekeeping

Disease Problems

Dogwood spot anthracnose

Large Patch – Turfgrass Diseases: Identification and Control

Leyland Cypress browning

Azalea leaf gall

Oak Leaf Blister

Other Problems

Herbicide damage to tomatoes

Squirrels digging lots of holes in lawns

Contributors

• Neil Tarver
• Brian Maddy
• Louise Estabrook
• Paula Burke
• Nathaniel Paul Eason
• Steve Pettis
• Michael Wheeler
• Brenda Jackson
• Steve Morgan
• Dr. Elizabeth Little