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Can you do a close up on the products? I am a visual learner. Thanks!

Thank you!!! Very informative.

I use a pressure washer.

Great video. How about one to shoo cicadas. 😇

So....my trees are well established and fairly large... each tree would need...2 bottles? Dang. Thank you for the video!

I need the name off the insecticide

Thanks so much for the complete explanation of treatment. Happy this is here. When I first started to see bark scale, there hadn’t been enough research.

Thank you so much 😊

I'm rather surprised to see TAMU promoting systemic insecticides considering the high risk to pollinators and potential bioaccumulation in birds and other animals that eat these pollonators. What about less toxic treatments like neem oil?

I just cut them down to 1' off the ground because some experts say that the scale can infect other plants like boxwoods and privet. To bad I had to mess up these beautiful trees.

Thank you so much! I just washed my tree with soap and water and it already looks 80% better. I'll be putting down the exact same pesticide you used in this video as there are no blooms on my tree yet, just some new growth. I MAY be able to save this tree 😊

Excellent job. Very helpful

I have black scale on my new myrtle (less than 2 years old), so cleaning the 1/4 in" trucks is not viable yet. Would the insecticide work on it own without cleaning the bark, longer healing time?

Thank you

Have you, or your team, considered Neem Oil? This is a natural systemic insecticide. Let us know what your findings are.

So i can use dawn on dishes, baby chickens and trees now.

20 crepe myrtles at $35 per bottles of insecticide is $700 ... I guess they'll be staying black

This was so helpful! The pace and step-by-step clarity was perfect. I was worried about my crape myrtles dying, but now I feel confident in treating them.

Question... my crate myrtle had black scale. I thought we fixed it. Came back from vacation and now I have a lot of knots on the trunk of these mature crates. HELP? How do I get rid of the knots? Can these trees be saved?

Can I use twice a year or not ?

Can I use one bottle on my two tree

Great info. It strikes me the high cost of treating your trees if all must be treated once the issue is spotted. You just used a whole bottle of systemic on one tree ($15-20) but have many other trees, so do they get this treatment now as well or do you wait until there are disease signs showing up ?

I have white specks on the upper most branches. I listened to the video twice and he stated to wash only the trunk with soap and water. Should I also wash the smaller branches at the top of the tree that also appear infested? If someone could get back, that would be great. Thank you.

Would interviewing you for my UA-cam channel be out of the question ?

In my head I hear the little feet crawl then the booty slide!

I just took a hose and put it on jet and blasted the bugs off mine. Gonna treat it with insecticide now.

Can I use Sevin?

Where do you try the line on what branches you need to wash? Should you just do the main trunks or everywhere you see the scale?

Would I not want to wear a mask rated for chemicals while spraying for mosquitos or is that overkill considering I wouldn't be doing this many times throughout the year?

Hi Michael , can I use this method on my grape fruit and guvava plant ?

I've sprayed repellent around my door way like you're doing, trouble is the spray gets on my face and arms.

Thank you so much for your informative video. It is excellent !! To tell you I am grateful would be an understatement!!

Great video, very informative! The only video I could find on how to treat bark scale on crapemyrtles..... Question - looking at my crapemyrtle tree, the bottom is bare, and the bark is completely spotted with white bark scale. The top part of the tree, with the foliage, it mainly only has scales at the base of the leaf stem/bark throughout the entire tree. I live in Oklahoma, it currently is July, with unusually hot temps, in the 100's currently. It bloomed beautifully in May/June.....at least half of the blooms have fallen off at this point..... I know you mentioned to treat in the Spring/Fall, when there are no blooms, but the scales are ridiculous, and I don't want to lose my tree to these insects! Right now, most of the blooms have fallen, do you think I could do a treatment right now before it reblooms or should I just wait until Fall when it stops blooming? Thank you kindly! 😊

OFF and other mosquito repellents WILL kill a lot of plants!!! I have fogged my vegetable garden once and all the tomatoes, eggplants and pepper plants lost the leaves that were fogged!!! MY kids used OFF (Deep Woods) to spray themselves, beside my herb plants, and it outright killed the ones that got sprayed while they applied it to themselves.

When washing the tree, do we need to do anything with the removed white insects/larvae pouches? Is it okay if they get on the ground? Do we need to remove them by hand and kill or is just washing the bark with brush enough to scrape it off sufficient?

What if you have a few 2 feet shrubs around a 12 foot tree?

Very helpful!! Thank you. I had no idea what happened to my precious crepe myrtle. Very informative, easy to follow and understand. And what's so beautiful...is my crepe myrtle hasn't bloomed yet for the season. Right on time!!!

Great video! Do what he says. Don't apply in bloom.

Hi Dr. Merchant - I happened upon this very helpful video a few years after you made it. When is the right time to apply in the spring? Should I wait until I see new growth or is it ok to apply in early spring which is now in Houston.

I've always suspected mosquitos were resting on my front door or next to it waiting for me to open it. So I've finally decided to spray it with a repellent. My choice was permethrin. It's normally used on clothing but I decided to try it on doors, walls, furniture and everything else. We'll see how this works.

I have one crate myrtle and I’m sure my neighbors think I’m nuts the past couple years watching me scrub my tree :)

I lived in an apartment with bed bugs in 2017. The management did the best they could, but their best wasn't good enough. They heat-treated my building. I checked my apartment 8 hours after they finished and it was still over 100 degrees. I stayed at my parent's house that day and night. When I came back the next day, the blinds on the windows were melted. I went to the bedroom and saw a tiny bed bug crawling on my bed. They are impossible to kill. I moved out a few months later. I threw away thousands of dollars of my furniture -- my bed, dresser, couch and loveseat. I washed my cloths and put them in vacuum-sealed bags. I put a lot of stuff in storage for a year. When I moved back into my parent's house, I was super paranoid that I would bring bed bugs with me and infest their house, but luckily, it's been 4 years and I haven't seen any signs of them. I will never live in an apartment building again -- ever.

Bird shot is my mosquito repellent

Great demonstration

What time frame would you expect to see results in?

What about the other stuff? Do you put both to treat the tree?

What are organic options to treat this? These bugs have spread from my crape myrtles to my vegetables and onto my flower bed, throughout the entire yard. Even if I pull all the infested plants and burn them, the damn things seem to live in the soil waiting for me to plant again. They are literally sucking the life out of every living thing on my property.

I remove scale with the "jet" setting on my hose-end sprayer. It has to be repeated a few times in the summer, but at least it won't kill bees and other pollinators. If I have to resort to some alcohol/soap/tea tree oil concoction, I'll do that, but I'm not touching this chemical crap. I learned my lesson with RoundUp.

Hi, I sprayed my yard and house all over with bifen.... I sprayed the patio light right outside my door..... so far so good with mosquitos and keeping bugs out, but tonight, 6 days after spraying (no rain for 48 hours after I sprayed) when I was out at night with patio light on, the flies were BAD right at the light... swarming the light.... I sprayed the light and surrounding part of the house by the light... this was the 1st time since I sprayed that I went outside with patio light on..... will the flies that kept hitting the light eventually die off from the residual of the bifen it (7.9%) or is bifen just not effective for flies that are attracted to the light?

Truly appreciate the play by play. Might have seemed silly to film the scrubbing, but it was needed for this stubborn brain to actually get a visual. Thank you for that! I do have questions...does the soap need to be rinsed? And I assume since you said not to apply after a rain, it would be prudent not to apply the insecticide immediately following the scrubbing. My question is posting in the month of March and application will be in days. In my region, there is no sign of spring growth as of yet. Also we trim the tree back in the winter so currently all that is there is the sculptural trunk. There are no limbs-they will sprout from the trunks to make a tree (not a bush). It is currently only 6' in height, very matured THICK group of trunks. 2 times wider in diameter than your example. Once it begins to grow the tree will reach 13 to 15' in height. Do I use the 6' pruned trunk measure for liquid measure in treatment? Thank you! ~ this black soot scale stuff, has turned my Crepey Myrtle to that of a CREEPY Myrtle.👽