Saturday, November 24, 2012

Managing the scale on our citrus tree


To treat scale on the orange tree I used white oil and then tangle foot.  The evening before I sprayed the oil onto the tree with a hose attachement.  The morning following I wrapped the trunks with paper towel and then with duck tape (over the towel).  On top of the duck tape I smeared TangleFoot.

Update: the day after the ants had found a path under the paper towel.  I crammed some cotton in the gap and this took care of the problem.

Update: now two weeks out (and after a few rains) still now ants are traveling up the trunk for farm the scale :-)



1 comment:

Mark Ball said...

It is now mid March and the Tanglefoot is still working to stop the ants from climbing the tree :-)