Insect & Disease Resource Center
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Chinch Bugs
Chinch bugs are small black and white insects that live in thatch and damage turf by sucking the sap and injecting toxic saliva. Adults are about 1/5 long. Newly hatched, immature nymphs appear bright red with a white band across the back.
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Crape Myrtle Bark Scale
Crape myrtle bark scale (CMBS) is an invasive insect species that attacks crape myrtle trees. They are small, white or gray in color and have a felt-like appearance.
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Dogwood Anthracnose
Dogwoods are treasured landscape trees. A destructive disease known as anthracnose can tarnish their beauty, degrade their health, or even kill the tree.
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Elongate Hemlock Scale
Elongate hemlock scale is an armored scale pest with a hard, waxy coating. Small, oblong, flattened insects appear on lower needle surfaces.
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Euonymus Scale
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Fire Blight
Fire Blight is a bacterial disease affecting apples, pears, and some other members of the family Rosaceae. It is a serious concern to apple and pear producers. Under the right conditions, it can destroy an entire orchard in a single growing season.
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Spongy moth (formerly gypsy moth)
Spongy moths are insects who can cause extreme defoliation to trees when in their caterpillar stage.