IPM- Integrated Pest Management & Disease Control

We believe in being proactive in preventing insect infestations and disease outbreaks in our customer’s trees and shrubs. This starts with identifying the pest risk for plants before it becomes an overwhelming issue. Carefully monitoring and assessing the new or existing pest situation ensures action is taken as soon as possible to prevent further outbreak.

 

Above all, prevention is the best medicine and the ideal option when it comes to proactive insect and disease prevention. To help minimize any damage to your trees and shrubs due to insect or disease, we work to ensure the landscape is healthy and that the direct environment around the plant is not stressed. This means that the primary stress contributors (soil, water and nutrient levels) of a plant are effectively managed and kept in balance. When this is accomplished, risk of pest and disease infestation is reduced, as is the need for traditional pesticide use over time.

Our Certified Arborists know what insects and diseases affect which trees and shrubs and can prescribe the safest and most effective treatments for controlling those insects and diseases. We focus our treatments to control problem insects and address diseases that are likely to cause health issues with your landscape plants. We strive to stay ahead of new threats to your landscape and provide cutting edge treatments that keep maintain our mission to use organic and natural services.

 

We utilize advanced technology to focus our treatments and produce the most effective results possible. We can do this through soil injections and direct tree injections, through these processes only the effected tree gets treated and avoids unnecessary treating of other flora and fauna.

 

Insect	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Aphids	Ash, Apple, Aspen, Boxelder, Birch, Cottonwood, Crab Apple, Elm, Hawthorn, Linden, Pines, Peach, Plums, Junipers, Maple, Spruce, Oaks, Walnut, Willow, Vines and Various shrubs
Ash/Lilac Borer	Ash, Lilacs
Ash Sawfly	Ash
Boxelder Bug	Boxelder
Bronze Birch Borer	Birch
Codling Moth	Apple (All Species), Crab Apples
Cottony Maple Scale	Maple, Boxelder, Hackberry, Dogwood, Hawthorn, Poplar, Peach, Pear, Oak,Locust, Willow, Linden and Elm
Cottonwood/ Poplar Borer	Cottonwood, Poplar and Aspens
Crown Borer	Peach and Plums
Elm Bark Beetle	Elm
Elm Leaf Beetle	Elm
Elm Leaf Miner	Elm, Birch and Hawthorn
Emerald Ash Borer	Ash
European Elm Scale	Elm
IPS Engraver Beetle	Spruce and Pine
Japanese Beetle	Adult treatment is Summer and can affect a wide variety of trees and shrubs. The grubs are treated in Spring and Fall
Kermes Scale	Oak
Mountain Pine Beetle	Variety of Pines
Oystershell Scale	Aspen, Ash, Cotoneaster, Poplars, Willow and Lilac
Pine Needle Scale	Junipers, Pines and Spruce
Poplar Scale	Aspen and Narrowleafed Cottonwood
Spruce Gall	Spruce
Striped Pine Scale	Pine
Tussock Moth	Spruce
Turpentine Beetle	Pine
Walnut Twig Beetle	Walnut
Zimmerman Pine Moth	Austrian, Scotch and PonderosaPines