Many crape myrtle trees across the D.C. region are infested by a bug called bark scale, which leaves behind a black fungal infection. A cure is elusive.

One of several planted along a fence line in a rural landscape on Hotz Road near Thomaston, this black diamond Crimson Red crape myrtle is a shrub size that can get as large as 8-12 feet tall and ...

Crape Myrtle. Crape myrtles are commonly attacked by crape myrtle aphids. This often leads to a black fungus, called sooty mold, forming on leaves and branches in mid- to late summer.

Crape myrtle trees are not native to Texas or anywhere else in the U.S., but they are great ornamental ... Black sooty mold caused by aphid waste can also be temporarily controlled with the same ...

There’s a lot going on with crape myrtles this summer. I’ve gotten quite a few calls about these highly prized ornamental trees of the South. With all of the rain that we have had over the ...

This black substance that's covering the azalea and edging is a fungus called "sooty mold." Both crape myrtle aphids and crape myrtle bark scale insects secrete sticky honeydew residue as they feed.

Something is eating the impatiens on one side of my planter, while the impatiens on the other side is doing fine. What can I ...

My "Tonto" crape myrtles stay covered with aphids and black mildew. I've tried every product available, and none keeps the aphids away for more than two weeks. The trees are close to our house ...

Although native to eastern Asia, crape myrtles are indispensable in the Southern landscape. Its vibrantly colored flowers in shades of pink, purple, red and white from May to September virtually ...

Crape myrtles, Lagerstroemia spp., are deciduous shrubs or trees native to southeastern China. The crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia indica, was introduced into England in 1759 and met with dismal ...

It first showed up in Texas in 2004 and made its way across the Gulf states. Now, crape myrtle bark scale can be found as far west as New Mexico, as far north as Kansas and as far east as Virginia.

back in 2019. kramer barksdale is a stabbing sucking insect that lives and likes to hide under the folds and crevices of the bark of a crape myrtle. but now you may start to notice black, sooty ...