Growing Bonsai Indoors
- One of the most common misconceptions about bonsai is that they should be grown indoors...KEYWORDS: growing bonsai indoors, inside, cold dormancy, wintering, deciduous trees, Tropicals, tropical bonsai, The Need for Strong Light, dark, shade cloth, watering, fertilizing, air circulation, humidity, insect and disease control, in the house -
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Insect & Mites photo gallery
- Photo Gallery of Insects and Mites on
Ornamental Plants KEYWORDS: Pictures of bugs, insects, borers, mites, aphids, anelgids, look like, description, beetles, lice, eggs, caterpillars, cicida, moths, scale, sawfly, flies, webworms, planthoppers, moths, thrips, fleahoppers, mapleworms, lace bug, wooly adelgids, crawlers, beetles, larvae, crickets, ladybeetles, ladybugs, leafminers, galls, spitbug, spittlebug, nymph, ants, fireants, spider mites, army worms,
The following images are from photographs taken by James R. Baker unless indicated otherwise. -
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Pest Control for Bonsai
- If you raise bonsai, someday you will do battle with destructive insects such as spider mites, aphids, scale, whitefly, and thrips. Proper management will control these pests... KEYWORDS: webbing at bases of leaves and twigs, Spider mites, beneficial spiders
Spots of sticky, clear liquid, oozing, honeydew, sapsucking insects, scale, aphids, Deformed new growth, Injury inside buds, foliage eating, eaten, Yellow, red mottling, spots, spotting, spider mites, virus, viral, infection, Irregular holes, tattered edges, pests, caterpillars, grasshoppers, slugs Small holes in bark with damp sawdust protruding, Borers, killing, bugs, insecticide, Slime, Slimy, trails, torn leaves, damage, bonsai disease, caterpillars, Nicotine Tea, Tobasco Cocktail, Garlic Juice, Cheap Beer, natural predators, toads, garter snakes, ladybugs, praying mantis, mantids, Neem Oil, Dyna-Gro, denitrifying bacteria, fungal root rot, Insecticidal Soaps, Pyrethrins, Diatomaceous earth, handling, storing, applying pesticides, spraying, Sevin, Malathion, Diasyston -
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Anthracnose and Other Fungal Leaf Spot Diseases of Maple
- Several fungal leaf spot diseases can infect maple. Extended periods of cool, moist weather, as new leaves are emerging, favor these diseases.
Symptoms of anthracnose (Discula sp.) include light brown, purple, or black spots that vary in size and shape. Phyllosticta (Phyllosticta minima) leaf spot is characterized by tan or brown spots with darker margins. Tar spot (Rhytisma acerinum), most frequently affecting red maple, is identified by raised black spots on the upper leaf surfaces. KEYWORDS: Acer fungus fungi fungal disease spotting defoliation stress fungicide -
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Apple Scab
- Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, occurs on apples and crabapples (Malus spp.). In late fall and early spring, fungal reproductive structures, appearing as round black pimples, develop primarily on infected leaves from the previous year. KEYWORDS: FUNGUS, FUNGI CRABAPPLE SPOTS -
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Bryophytes - Mosses, Liverwort & Hornwort
- "Bryophytes" is a resource devoted to Bryology, the branch of plant science concerned with the study of mosses, liverworts and hornworts. They are found growing on soil, rocks and/or trees throughout the world, -
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Bugs and Bonsai
- Insects, Disease, Bugs, Good Bugs vs. Bad Bugs, To Spray or not to Spray? Insecticides, Here is a bug-by-bug rundown of some of your options, Know Your Bugs, Bugs on the Internet, Jim Lewis -
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Cedar-Apple Rust
- Cedar-apple rust is caused by the fungus Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae. To complete its life cycle, the fungus must infect apple or crabapple and an alternate hosts, including cedar and juniper. -
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Dealing with Rotting Wood
- This apple tree has lost a large amount of bark. The wood is becoming soft and rotten. Wood hardener can stop the rot and preserve the exposed wood. KEYWORDS Rooting trunk, Kathy Shaner -
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Dormant Spray
- Dormant spray is used to prevent insects and diseases they can emerge in spring. There are three main dormant sprays. Oils, Lime Sulfur, and Copper based sprays Here are a few helpful tips to get you started. KEYWORDS: Sulphur What will dormant sprays treat? What are the different sprays used for? What rates are dormant sprays applied at? When should I apply? How safe are dormant sprays for people? Are there any potential problems? -
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Everything Ladybugs
- This site is all about ladybugs. Everything you need to know about ladybugs. -
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Guide to Organic Treatments for Pests And Diseases
- Some organic controls predate the chemical revolution of the 20th century, including Bordeaux mixture, used in French vineyards to combat fungal diseases; and pyrethrin, an insecticide derived from a species of chrysanthemum. But many are newly available, including neem oil, developed by James Locke, a scientist at the U.S. National Arboretum. -
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Iron Chlorosis
- Trees that exhibit yellow leaves with prominent green veins are often suffering from a micronutrient deficiency called iron chlorosis. Symptoms may range from a mild yellowing of the leaf tissue between the veins to severe yellowing. This can lead to the death of leaves, dieback of branches, lack of vigor, and possibly death of the entire plant. KEYWORDS: Treatment, iron chelate, chelated, Greenol Miracid Mir-acid Acid-gro pH iron sulfate -
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Maple Petiole Borer
- If numerous leaves from maple trees suddenly drop to the ground in late May or early June, the culprits are probably maple petiole borers, Caulocampus acericaulis. Drought, squirrels, heavy aphid or scale infestations may also cause premature leaf drop. However, defoliation caused by maple petiole borers has distinctive characteristics -
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Mycorrhizae
- The word mycorrhizae originates from Greek, with mykes meaning fungus, rhiza being root. The word refers to any situation where a plant%u2019s roots are in a symbiotic relationship with soil fungi. KEYWORDS: mycorrhizae, mycorrhiza, Howard Smith, MD, roots, fungus, fungi, hyphae, -
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Pest Management
- PEST MANAGEMENT, A Compilation of information
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Pesticide Active Ingredient Profiles
- Pesticides Profiles, Insecticides and Miticides, Herbicides and Growth Regulators, Fungicides and Nematicides,
Genetic Engineering and Microbial Pesticides, Fumigants, Rodenticides, Repellents, and Vertebrate Pesticides
Wood Preservatives, Miscellaneous Pesticides (Antimicrobial, Attractants, Bactericide, Disinfectant, etc.),
Initial Filing of Pesticide Petitions
Canceled Uses, Deleted Uses, -
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Pests and Diseases
- Integrated Pest Management for Bonsai KEYWORDS: What is IPM?, cultural controls, monitoring, diseases, insects, avid, controlling, pesticides, insecticides, bugs, mites, spraying, predators, beneficial insects, toxicity, safe -
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Pests of Indoor Plants
- Pest attacks are less common indoors than in the garden, but if they do occur and are allowed to get out of hand then serious damage can result. Apply the appropriate remedy as soon as the first signs are seen.
Aphids, Greenfly, Caterpillar, Cyclamen Mites, Earwigs, Eelworms, Fungus Gnats, Mealy Bugs, Red Spider Mites, Scales, Thrips, Vine Weevils, Whiteflys, Whiteflies, White Fly, flies, insects, pests, disease, crawling, flyiing -
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Phytopythora and Root Rot in Trees
- Rootrot is a generic term used in bonsai to describe roots that are found to have died and rotted away. But what is rootrot exactly and why does it continue to kill the root system even when a tree is replanted into fast draining soil and watered properly? -
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