The Leyland cypress is a lovely evergreen tree that is pyramidal in shape and ordinarily used as a hedging , privacy screen or windbreak due to its fast growth rate . It can develop up to 3 base or more in a year . A mature Leyland cypress tree can reach a height of up to 70 groundwork . It can be infested by several dirt ball such as bagworms , scale and spider speck .

Tree Characteristics

The Leyland cypress ' leafage ( dark green in color ) has a soft , feathery appearance , and its needles let loose a wonderful scent when broken . It is a hybrid of the Monterey cypress tree and the Nootka fake cypress . The Leyland cypress tree should be planted in organically plentiful , moist but well - drained grease . This cypress Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree has a shallow root system , and care will need to be taken to ensure that it receives adequate water during any extreme drouth conditions . Stressed trees are more susceptible to insect infestations .

Bagworms

Bagworms are by far the most damaging of the insects to infest the Leyland cypress tree tree , and they are extremely difficult to get rid of . These caterpillar / bagworms can scourge the cypress tree . The bagworms build a web or collapsible shelter - like body structure at a forking in the tree . They exit the web during the day time of day ( with the exception of showery or nebulous days ) to tip on the foliation of the tree . As they feed the tent gets larger .

Control of Bagworms

Bagworms should be verify before they build up their bag or tent – when the larvae are lowly ( the first three months of springtime ) . If the Leyland cypress tree is small , the bagworms can be picked off by hand . However , if the tree diagram is large it will involve to be chemically sprayed to rid the tree diagram of the bagworms . Use Dipel or Thuricide to spray the tree .

Scale

scale are modest insects that appear as small , crusty flakes on the needles and branches of the the Leyland cypress tree . They are sapsuckers and suck the sap from the cypress tree tree diagram , causing yellowing or greensickness of the needles . The salutary way to treat scale is through a systemic insect powder , which means the insect powder is fed into the organisation of the cypress tree tree diagram . As the scales feed on the sap they are also assimilate the insect powder and are pour down . The sound clock time to apply the systemic insecticide is during early spring as a preventive measure . Cygon is one systemic insecticide that can be used to free the Leyland cypress of scale .

Spider Mites

wanderer mites are actually arachnids that attack the Leyland cypress tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by sucking on the leaf . Symptoms that the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree has spider jot will be yellow / browning of the phonograph needle . Spider touch can only be seen through a magnifying glass due to their minuscule sizing . You will only know they are there when the symptoms become apparent . Spider soupcon do have some lifelike foeman : ladybeetle , lacewing larvae , narrow sea rover bug , and some predatory jot . The honorable mean of control is to maintain a healthy tree diagram . agree to the Auckers Nursery , " Spider mites have become resistant to most of the quondam chemical . urge using only true miticides for ascendancy . "

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