A balanced, healthy home landscape is your best defense.
Your best defense against pest problems – whether you are trying to combat insects or diseases – is to provide trees and plants in your home landscape with good health.
Choosing varieties appropriate to the location and climate, planting properly in healthy soil and providing routine watering and maintenance will ensure strong and healthy plants that are not attractive to pests.
Maintaining a healthy variety of trees and plants also helps by making your home landscape an attractive home to "good bugs;" insects that attack and actually reduce populations of harmful visitors to your landscape. The reality is that these beneficial insects can make a significant contribution to controlling pests in your landscape and the key is knowing when a pest or disease requires extra intervention.
Our expert arborists can predict and identify when pests or disease pose a threat to your trees and plants' health and recommend the properly targeted solution. Our treatments will address the pest or disease problem with the least impact to the surrounding environment and beneficial insects. Proper timing of any treatment is essential. See our calendar of common plant diseases and pests in Virginia to identify the best time to address a problem at your property.