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Gardening Help- Do Wasps Eat Trees

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July 19, 2014 10:26 AM

Gardening Help- Do Wasps Eat Trees

This is a fairly new tree planted about 8-10 months ago.

It was full last fall and lost it leaves during the winter months. Then it bloomed this spring.

Gardening Help- Do Wasps Eat Trees

Spring arrived and it was full of leaves but then we noticed wasps on the tree all the time. There are no flowers but the wasps like to hang around every moring.

Gardening Help- Do Wasps Eat Trees

Wasp or Sawfly on Tree looks like something is eating on the leaves still. Do wasps eat leaves? Does anyone know what kind of tree this is and what I can do to get rid of the wasps?

Help; What kind of tree and what can I do to get rid of the wasps or whatever is eating the leaves?

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Bette Gottwald

UNITED REAL ESTATE | Central PA - Mechanicsburg, PA

"Bet"on Central PA Real Estate!

Kristin, Your tree looks to be Japenese Cherry. If the leaves are skeltonized, it is likely the wasps you are seeing are actually sawflies. My suggestion, other than hand picking the larva, would be to use Neem oil, as it won't harms the bees and butterflies. Good luck!

Jul 19, 2014 11:22 AM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

OK I will Google that and see what I find. Thanks Bette.

Jul 19, 2014 12:13 PM

Endre Barath, Jr.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices - Beverly Hills, CA

Realtor - Los Angeles Home Sales 310.486.1002

Kristin, I had no idea love Bette she is a wealth of knowledge, Endre

Jul 19, 2014 04:02 PM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Endre,

I am going to the nursery tomorrow and take a small branch and ask what I can purchase to get rid of them. I was glad to read that they do not sting. I am all for homemade recipes but I couldn't find one.

Jul 19, 2014 04:10 PM

Silvia Dukes PA, Broker Associate, CRS, CIPS, SRES

Tropic Shores Realty - Ich spreche Deutsch! - Spring Hill, FL

Florida Waterfront and Country Club Living

Kristin, I think taking your branch to a nursery for advice is a good idea. Hope your tree will flourish again with the right treatment!

Jul 20, 2014 12:27 AM

Gloria Todor

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services - Newtown Square, PA

& Doug Durren (484) 431-3686 in SE PA

Kristin, Sorry to hear your tree is having troubles. Hopefully it will recover once you find out how to remedy it!

All the best.

Gloria

Jul 20, 2014 03:16 AM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Silvia,

I think that is the best choice is to ask the experts. I am not one for using chemicals as I live in the foothills and want to protect the soil and the wildlife but I might have to do something drastic.

Jul 20, 2014 04:54 AM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Gloria,

I had been ignoring it as I didn't want to get stung but was glad to find out these are wasps that do not sting.

Jul 20, 2014 04:55 AM

David Shamansky

US Mortgages - David Shamansky - Highlands Ranch, CO

Creative, Aggressive & 560 FICO - OK, Colorado Mtg

Thats crazy, I had no idea they did that?

Anyway have a good wkd

Jul 20, 2014 06:03 AM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

David,

Yes I hope too as my short sale closes tomorrow. I am enroute to the nursery right now to see what they say is the type of tree and what we can do to get rid of the pesky wasp like sawflies.

Jul 20, 2014 06:52 AM

Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP

DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX

Selling Homes Changing Lives

Take a print out of this blog post to the nursery. Maybe then can post it if they can't answer your question, but I think someone there will know. Something is eating that tree and it'll be gone quickly at this rate if it's not treated. Keep us posted!

Jul 20, 2014 12:39 PM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Patricia,

Ok, what is the nursery? Is that a group in AR? I belong to a FB group called Gardening so I could post it there. I went to our local nursery and they didn't know! Thinking about going to Home Depot or Lowe's tomorrow.

Jul 20, 2014 01:15 PM

Suzanne Otto

Six Twenty Designs - Lansdale, PA

Your Montgomery County PA home stager

They sure look a lot like yellow jackets, I'm glad they don't sting either! Otherwise I'd hand that job off to someone else.

Jul 20, 2014 10:19 PM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

We bought a product last night and sprayed it last night with our garden hose. It is an oily product which is supposed to give immediate relief from the pests. We will see shortly if the wasps are there this morning. Unfortunately, we noticed there are 2 other trees, REDBUD, in our neighborhood and they are infected also. I am afraid these pests will leave and then soon come back. Luckily mine happens to be the largest and fullest so I think it will survive.

Jul 21, 2014 01:19 AM

Caroline Gerardo

Sun West Mortgage Corporation - Newport Beach, CA

C. G. Barbeau the Loan Lady nmls 324982

First make the tree stronger: Add compost to the base but don't cover the trunk. Slow soak the soil with a drip hose not sprinklers. Inland Empire is hot in July and August, not much you can doo to protect from that...

In a used spray bottle: 2 cups water, 4 tablespoons dawn dish soap - Wear loose long sleeves and gloves and a hat (cover yourself) spray under all the leaves.

A compost tea: (Do you have a compost pile? - easy with some used wire make an upright circle and add grass, vegetable clippings, leaves) place a tray at bottom side and water the aged compost. The brownish water has nitrogen and can be used directly on the leaves at the end of the day)

Find the nest- is probably in the eaves near a swimming pool.

At night power hose it down (using caution by covering all your body wasps are mean)

Jul 21, 2014 04:00 AM

Kristin Hamilton CA Realtor

Sun Lakes Realty - Banning, CA

(909) 557-6966- Specialize 55+ Communties Banning

Hi Caroline Gerardo

Just looked back at this post and realized I never responded. This is great advice and I am again have trouble with these sawflies that look like wasps so I will try what you mentioned above. Happy Spring!

Apr 24, 2016 04:34 AM

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