How to get rid of Tree
Insects
Our professional arborists can identify an insect and determine if it's harmful to the tree, beneficial,
or has no effect.Some insects are
beneficial because they control populations of harmful insects through
predation or parasitism, so you want to avoid any treatments that take out
the good bugs with the bad. If the insect is indeed harmful, we see how harmful
it is and if
it is worth treating. Most professional arborists operate on the philosophy of
treating only when the environmental/economic risk from the insect has
reached a certain threshold.
Many bugs are benign. For instance, the presence of
carpenter ants indicates decayed wood is present; they only are seen in dead, decaying sections of the tree. On the other
hand, termites pose a threat to trees and are best treated by a professional.