Hello Everyone!
About 5 months ago I planted 4 Wax Myrtle shrubs. Things were going up and down because I am new to this and I was over watering them and stressed them. They seem to be doing better now. The problem I am having is that I want them to grow but something keeps taking the new tips and somehow binding them together to form like a cocoon of some sort with eggy looking things inside. (sorry) I usually spray it with water and pick it clean with my fingers. I just don't have the energy to keep doing this day and night!!
Some branches are fine but some are just not growing due to whatever it is and it seems to be munching on the new leaves also. I have seen brown grasshoppers also. I just want my shrubs to get established and want these critters OFF, whatever they are.
Does anyone know?
What would you recommend that I spray on the leaves to keep these pests off without hurting my shrubs?
I am lost!
Thanks for any advice!
Halime
Thanks Sherlock! Unfortunately they are not webworms. The cocoons are real small and they are right on the tips of the new growth. There are small brownish orangish colored little specks inside the small white webbing. I usually spray water on them and get it out with my fingers. I have a camera but it is a cheap model and does not do closeup very well. I've seen brown grasshoppers hanging out in the shrubs. It gets my goat because the shrubs are trying to grow yet their new leaves are being munched short. :-(
