Comments on: Ficus Trees Insects Overview

by: Briggette

Wed, 20 May 2009 04:34:03 +0000

My schefflera plant has scale and is leaving honeydew(sticky residue)on the plant and my carpet. Do the bugs get into the carpet, drapes, etc.?
If so how do I treat those items?

by: Dianne

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:52:23 +0000

I have an indoor standar ficus. There are white dots on the base of a lot of the leaves. They feel like soap and leave a wet mark when I move them.
It looks like it might be sap because they are all in the same spot on the leaf.
What am I dealing with?

Thanks for any help you can give

by: Carrie Gibbs

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:39:09 +0000

I have a beautiful 8 foot ficus in our front yard. Last year I cut it back because it was getting taller than the roof. It just started growing back leaves but we have noticed that the outer bark is peeling off, the stump seems very week or hollow and there are small (termite like) tunnels in the tree. Can a ficus get termites. I thought I noticed a very small black beetle like bug in the trunk. Is there a fix for this or should we replace?

by: Dumas

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:31:03 +0000

thank you for the site! there’s an outdoor benjimina where i live that needs help, and i have taken on the task of trying to revive it, if possible. it has been neglected for some time. sparse foliage, and some of the smaller, peripheral branches seem to be shriveling up and dying. it is approx. 3.5′-4′ high, and in a 20 gallon conatiner. it’s not a lost cause i don’t think. i noticed that it definitely has brown scale bugs, and i have started to pick them off manually, as suggested here (thanks), as well as using azatrol (an organic, neem based product i believe)to get rid of them. but i also noticed what looked to be a beetle-esque type flying bug on one of he branches. looked more like a fire fly, in a sense, only a little bigger, an uglier. a brownish dorsal/top, and whiteish/yellowish venteral/bottom, orangeish head on the underside. any ideas? a beneficial bug? or more likely no? any help greatly appreciated.

thank you.

ps- so, i may have answered part of my own question, as i have also been using a dr. bronners peppermint dilute, and when i sprayed the ficus w/ azatrol, the bug just moved around the branch, but when i sprayed the dr.bronners, it didnt like that at all and took off rather quickly. but still, i am curious as to what it might be. if it’s a beneficial or not? thank you for your time.

by: christian

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:50:50 +0000

My ficus has these weird black bugs that live in the leaves. They lay their eggs and the leaves close up around them. The leaf ends up dying. What do I do about this?

by: Steve

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:56:41 +0000

After 29 years, our wedding present ficus appears to be dying. The leaves have almost all fallen off. I have sprayed it with Raid House and Garden and used an insectidie soap as well as diluting malathion (sp?) and watering it in to the soil in the pot. Will it survive?

by: Vinay

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:09:59 +0000

I have ficus Virens, unfortunately its having very tiny round spots of brown color on its leaves. please help what should i do? is it a fungus ?

Thanks
Regards,
Vinay