New Customers Receive First Treatment Free

Your trees and shrubs have weathered another New England winter! Now, TreeSolutions is applying spring treatments to target overwintering insects. Even well-established trees and shrubs benefit from proactive disease and insect control.

Dormant Oil for Insect Control

Dormant oil is applied to your trees and shrubs while the plants are dormant. It is very effective in suffocating a number of damaging plant insects, mites, and scale pests. Treatments will be made as weather allows and when daytime temperatures approach 40 degrees.

The treatments are especially effective on scale-type insects that damage a variety of trees and shrubs, including maples, taxus (yew), and holly. This treatment will prevent the scale from developing into the “crawler” stage, which will damage plants later in the season. Successful control of scale is far easier now than later in the season during the crawler stage of the pest.

Dormant oil treatments can also minimize winter moth activity, but total elimination of damage is close to impossible.

Special offer for new plant health customers: allow Tree Solutions to provide you with a free plant health care quote, and with the purchase of a yearlong program we will provide the first treatment free of charge. Treatments throughout the year include insect & disease controls, fertilization, dormant oil, and anti-desiccant treatments. *The free application is for new, first-time plant health customers only.

Winter moths have become a problem in Rhode Island. The eggs will hatch in early spring.
Tree Solutions’ dormant oil treatment will suffocate the moth’s eggs and minimize damage. Without treatment, winter moth larvae will defoliate trees.