I have a beautiful crepe myrtle, i am in arizona, it is flowering beautiful right now, but i noticed the leaves look wet, there is like a coating on them (it hasn't rained). is this normal?
2006-09-26 10:55:01 · 8 answers · asked by luv78779 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
sounds as if you have aphids. they emit a clear and very slightly sticky substance. buy an insecticide for aphids (worst) or hose down with powerful water jet (but you lose your bloom) or spray with a mild soap and water which will asphyxiate the aphids.
The plant won't die. Your crepe myrtle is normally deciduous in temperate climates (meaning leaves fall) but I don't know if leaves will fall in winter in your climate zone and return again in spring. If so, and the problem will go away then likely recur. Why don't you now look up aphids on internet and find an accurate description of the symptoms of aphids then find a commercial spray.
2006-09-26 11:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by visitor1957 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Crape Myrtle Arizona
2016-10-15 23:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by guglielmina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please do not use the systemic pesticide. Go to your extension service or better yet the horticultural department of the nearest university or collage and ask about a none toxic remedy for the problem. If lady bugs are a natural predator in your state you can order them from gardening catalogs and their larva will eat the aphids causing the sticky shiny leaves. A systemic pesticide will kill butterflies, bees, and anything else visiting the flowers on the tree.
2006-09-27 10:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by misty 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are they wet or just look wet? Crepe myrtle's leaves are usually a bit waxy looking. Are they just shining because of their waxy appearance?
2006-09-26 11:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by dlobryan1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then you don't have a beautiful crepe myrtle, you have the ugly "wet looking" crepe myrtle and yes it has rained in Arizona.
2006-09-26 10:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You probably have some sap sucking insects on your plant. They suck all of the sugars out of the plant and then become so bloated that they excrete thier sugary urine over the leaves. This sugary liquid is what feed sooty mould(fungi that turns leaf black).
Spray with a systemic pesticide(this flows through the sap of the plant and only affects insects that suck the sap out), or a contact pesticide(must come in contact with the insects body to kill it)
2006-09-26 12:02:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what to say
2016-08-08 15:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thanks everyone for the answers!
2016-08-23 07:39:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋