Summary of article in Ornamental Outlook, July 2004 by John M. Ruter

Pest symptoms/damage treatment

Maple Tip Borer tips of twigs and maybe synthetic pyrethroids
and maybe base of trunk
show borer damage

Flatheaded Apple base of trunk imidacloprid
Tree Borer

Leafhoppers damage of new growth none listed

Scales leaves and trunk depending dormant oils
upon type of scale

Spider mites defoliation none specific
listed

Ambrosia Beetles attack stressed container none listed
grown trees

Greenstriped Maple don't use Orthene on
Worm Maples

Tar Spot not usually bad enough
to warrant spraying

Bat Canker also brought on by wet weather Best controlled
by
Root Rot over watering in containers goof
cultural practices

more information http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu


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Wow! And my red maples just sit here and grow, with no pests
other than an
occasional japanese beetle. I must be living right.

Well, just because a pest is _listed_ for A. rubrum doesn't mean
that every tree has them. A. rubrum is a remarkable carefree
plant.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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