Bugs are thay killing my palm tree?help please?
Question:i got (two) windmill palm trees 3 foot tall base and with the fans thay are 10 feet tall.i just moved the palm trees 2 weeks ago and all the fans turned brown so i cut them off.the palm tree is still green and starting to grow back has a 1 foot small fan growing up. but lately a lot of beatle bugs are landing on my palm tree thay look like a rhinocerros beetles and thay fly.and no it is not a june bug it is a beetle.are the rhinoceros beetles killing or eating my palm tree?how do i get rid of them?also my palm tree has some small ants should i get rid of them to?what kind of fertalizer should i put on my palm tree to get it to grow better?also i'm in jax fl.
Answers:
To get rid of beetle bugs - spray them with Insecticidal Soap
To get rid of ants - mix together 50/50 icing sugar and baking soda. Put it in shallow lids and put the lids on the soil of your planter. They will carry the baking soda back to the nest and feed it to the queen, who will blow up and die because they can't get rid of the gas from the soda. The icing sugar is an attractant.
Fertilize with high phosphorus - high middle number (bone meal is good) to promote strong healthy roots. Use nitrogen (high first number) for top growth.
Hope that helps!
rhino beetles- hurry and kill them with a stick or something. they're grubs are HUGE, palm of your hand huge, and they eat roots, killing trees.the brown leaf was a natural change meaning your tree will grow. ant's are no problem... unless they're termites. termites have orange heads, white bodies. Ants are ok and is good for environment.
You can buy a systemic insecticidal drench that kills insects for up-to 1 year, which I use on problems of this nature. Also, you can kill the beetles, before they fly off, with a liquid soap spray, or other insect killing spray. This will spread, via the roots, to the rest of the plant and kill nibbling, sucking insects, including grubs. I'll go find the name of the type I use, and get back.
Many insects attack plants that are stressed, so I would feed your Trachycarpus - the common windmill palm, or others, with a general purpose palm fertiizer, available from Home Depot etc. or specialist palm nurseries. Give them a good mulch too, so that the roots get minimal chance to dry out.
And water during dry weather - preferably good long waterings, rather than little frequent waterings. Strange, because a friend in Louisiana has just told me of a similar problem that she has, and she's moved hers too. Best of luck!
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Organocide is probably the best defense for palm and for a slow fertilizer that won't burn any palms, bushes or grass the preferred choice is Milorganite. Fertilize twice a year in spring and fall. Got that tip from a landscaper in my area (Planting zone 9) Central Florida.
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