CALL UTAH TREE DOCTOR WHEN BIRCH STING BUGS INFEST YOUR TREES AND HOME GARDEN
What Is The Cause Of My Tree's Illness?
Birch stink bugs, or brown marmorated stink bugs are a brown shieldbug that commonly infests birch and maple trees. They excrete a very foul smelling liquid that deters its predators. Step on one and you’ll smell it. Like Boxelder Bugs, these insects can gather by the hundreds in fall on the exterior of homes and make their way indoors in search of winter shelter.
Dangers Of A Birch Stink Bug Infestation
The stink bugs feed on a large variety of plants, using their piercing mouthpieces to suck juices from leaves and fruit. Their signature is a characteristic cat-faced scarring left when feeding. In addition to infesting and damagin your birch, maple and fruit trees (apple, pear, crabapple, etc.), these critter can go to town in your garden, going after corn, sunflowers, tomatoes, peppers and berry crops.
How A Basic Diagnoses Is Made
Both the larvae and adult stink bugs will feed on leaves or birch trees, maple trees and nearby fruits and vegetables.
PESTS, PROBLEMS AND THEIR TREATMENTS
Ash Borer
Aspen Gall
Aspen Black Leaf Spot
Birch Leafminer
Birch Stink Bugs
Black Locust Borer
Black Turpentine Beetle/Pitch Moth
Boxelder Webworms
Bronze Birch Borer
Chlorosis
Codling Moth
Coryneum Blight
Conifer Bark Beetle Ground
Elm Leaf Beetle
Fall Poplar Borer
Fall Willow Borer
Fire Blight
Greater Peach Tree Borer
Gummosis
Honey Locust Borer
Lesser Peach Tree Borer
Oak Bullet Gall
Oak Lace Bugs
Oak Leaf Blister
Oak Webworms
Pine Tip Weevil
Powdery Mildew
Sawfly
Scale
Slime Flux
Spider Mites
Spring Poplar Borer
Spring Willow Borer
Spruce Cooley Gall Adelgid
Strawberry Root Weevil
Sycamore Anthracnose
Fruitworm
