Pine Tip Moth: Systemic Imidacloprid for Yard Trees

Pine needles browning at branch tips: Nantucket pine tip moth. Larvae bore into buds, kill tips. Tree becomes bushier; rarely dies.

Cut off and destroy brown tips.
Or: Bayer Advanced Garden Tree and Shrub Insect Control (imidacloprid) soil drench.
Systemic, applied to roots, not foliage.
Timing sprays difficult; systemic easier.

Not worth spraying; trees outgrow damage, indistinguishable at thinning.

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