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Hi Mike,
After watching your video on “How to Prune Overgrown Shrubs,” I got brave and cut my old overgrown Burning Bushes almost down to the ground in the late fall last year. This year they are growing back thick and healthy. That is until I noticed some new shoots curling up at the tips with black dots on them, like ants, killing the new shoots. I had this happen on Snowball bushes and Cranberry shrubs. We had a lot of rain over the last couple of weeks, and I don’t know if that has anything to do with it. I’m in zone 6.
Anyways, I cut off the curling diseased tips. Would you know what is causing these bugs or disease to destroy these new shoots, and how I can stop them?
Thank you for your help.
Gloria,
Sounds like aphids. Aphids like soft new growth. As soon as that growth hardens off the aphids will flee the scene. Normally I don’t do a thing for them but you can spray with insecticidal soap or something simple like that.