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Originally Posted by Ann Lancing
I have scale insects on a cultivated blackberry. The infestation was so
bad that I cut out all the stems.
Will it come back with the new shoots, if so how can I kill them?
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It will come back if you have missed any scales - you'll get young scale insects which will then disperse across the plant, and will obviously target young growth rather than old growth.
You can kill them with a systemic insecticide - one that is taken into the plant, and therefor kills sap sucking creatures. But you might not want to eat the blackberries.
I presume you are confident about your identification - scale insect is not the first thing you think of in connection with blackberries.
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