But
today when i was out watering my trees i came to my
japanese juniper. And as the mist from the noxel hit
its foilage a small swarm of tiny light colored bugs
flew off. They are not white fly, they are not fungus
gnats or aphids they are about the size of whitefly
but seem more transparent and move much faster. They
kept swarming around in the air almost like they were
trying to crash into each other in the air it was a
very bizzare behavior. Anyway i ran a search on the
web and came up with midges. Ive never encountered
them but i don't think they are good.....

Midges are no threat to your juniper. Midges (their larvae)
occasionally cause galls on trees (such as bald cypress), but the
adults prey on warm-blooded animals -- NOT on trees.


They are
tiny not the size of mosquito's. But regardless im
kinda clueless as to what they are but im nervous
since there were tons of them on that japanese juniper
maybe 30 or 40 flew off of it.

Scarcely "tons." Does your tree appear to be healthy? If it
looks OK, it is unlikely that whatever these little animiclues
are were causing the tree any harm. There are millions of
species of insects, and 99% of them are harmless or even
beneficial. The mere fact that you see an insect (or insects) on
your trees does NOT portend disaster.

They left alone my
golden coast juniper and san hose juniper in fact the
only plant they were on was my japanese juniper.

Which probably indicated they are harmless. To an insect, a
juniper is a juniper. They won't distinguish to the species
level.

I
just yesterday thinned out the foilage and cleared
away any interior deadwood but i doubt that has
anything to do with there emergence.

Actually, it could. These insects -- whatever they are -- may
have been attracted to the cuts and could have been feeding on
the sap (sugars) that was leaking from the wound.

I would rather
not use a bugspray on any of my trees is there a
biological control that would work to get rid of them
if they are bad?

Just keep an eye on things. If your tree starts looking bad,
THEN take steps to discover the cause.

And note that bio-controls seldom work on individual plants as
small as a bonsai. For bio-controls to work, there must be a
MASS of food available to them. Otherwise, they move on to
greener pastures. Literally. They work on crops, but an
individual plant doesn't offer them enough incentive to stick
around.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - This economy
is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment. - Gaylord
Nelson, 1995

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