{"id":1442,"date":"2017-04-27T22:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2024-05-26T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:12:25","slug":"saving-the-hemlock-trees-from-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/saving-the-hemlock-trees-from-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Hemlock Trees from Beetles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pine trees in front of the house started looking poorly. I called a tree service and he told me they had Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles. There are 8 trees and they are big. They screen the log cabin from the road and I really wanted to save them.<\/p>\n<p>We did some research and found that you can treat them yourself with any of the Bayer Advanced products that kill beetles. We used <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2BKjfp7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bayer Advanced Tree &amp; Shrub Insect Control<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1446\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-2.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1446 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-2.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-2.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1445\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-3.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1445 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-3.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-3.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-3.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles-3.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1447\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1447 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hemlock_beetles.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I never saw the beetles, but this is what the trees look like. The beetles leave this weird cottony stuff on the trees. Then the branches start to die off. The insecticide isn\u2019t cheap, but neither is paying someone to remove a dead tree.<\/p>\n<p>One of the smaller trees died completely.<\/p>\n<h2>Treating My Trees<\/h2>\n<p>It was really easy to treat the trees. We just followed the directions on the poison. Basically, pour it on with water. A few years later we started seeing the cotton and the dried up branches again, so we treated them again.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer\u2019s website says that any of these will kill the beetles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3KgjrB9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BioAdvanced 12-Month Shrub Control Insect Killer<\/strong> on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It just depends how big your trees are and how many you have.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 Month Tree &amp; Shrub Protect &amp; Feed<\/li>\n<li>12 Month Tree &amp; Shrub Protect &amp; Feed II<\/li>\n<li>3-in-1 Disease &amp; Mite Control<\/li>\n<li>Natria Multi-Insect Control<\/li>\n<li>3-in-1 Tree &amp; Shrub Plant Starter<\/li>\n<li>Natria Insecticidal Soap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2BL6aM8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They are all on this page on Amazon &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We used <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2BKjfp7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayer Advanced 12 Month Tree &amp; Shrub Insect Control<\/a> and it worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pine trees in front of the house started looking poorly. I called a tree service and he told me they had Hemlock Woolly Adelgid beetles. There are 8 trees and they are big. They screen the log cabin from the road and I really&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/saving-the-hemlock-trees-from-beetles\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/featured_hemlock_beetles.jpg?fit=1200%2C632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11969,"url":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/snow-at-meadowbrook-log-cabin-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1442,"position":0},"title":"Snow at Meadowbrook Log Cabin","author":"Carla","date":"December 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We don't get a lot of snow in Hendersonville, but when we do the log cabin is beautiful. 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