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What is that secret illness on magnolia trees?
Mature scale insect females are visible with crawlers on the branch of a magnolia tree. This part of the scale life cycle takes place in early August as crawlers are mobile and looking to settle in and begin feeding for winter.

I returned to the business office this week from a weeklong staycation to various requests from householders to identify a thriller ailment impacting the magnolia trees in their landscape.

A very little diagnostic do the job disclosed colourful, waxy, bumpy growths on the trunk and branches, and a black, dusty material on the leaves, foremost to 1 conclusion: magnolia scale with sooty mold.

Magnolia scale (Neolecanium cornuparvum) is one particular of most significant and most noticeable scale bugs in our Ohio landscapes. Never heard of scales? Although they truly really do not resemble most insects that we visualize influencing trees in the landscape, scales are a type of insect.

A local resident recently submitted this photo for diagnostics to the Ohio State University Extension. It's a case of magnolia scale, diagnosed by the characteristic colorful raised bumps on the branch of a magnolia tree.

Generally showing as a elevated place on tree branches and trunks with a delicate and shiny tan-brown or even a bit delicate-orange coloring and easy outer layer, they effects their host by inserting needle-like, sucking mouth components to obtain the sap

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