My Tulip Poplars are under attack..help!

[schafe]

I have 3 Tulip Poplar trees on my property. The largest is about 60ft. tall. They all seem to have Tulip Tree scale insects very thick up to about 1/2 way up. The insects are sucking out the sap at an incredible rate, and dripping it all over my cars and yard. I tried a Bayer insecticide applied at the roots intended to treat this scale a couple weeks ago, but I am not seeing any results.
I don't have any way of applying anything as high as I would need to go safely to apply hort. oil. I understand that only works for the crawler stage of these insects which happens in August, usually, anyway?
Any suggestions what can be done now?

 

[Mr. Habib]

Have you tried packing them in uncoiled rice? If that doesn't work, wrap them in bacon. Bacon makes everything better.

 

[singlestacksig]

Tuliptree Scale — Entomology — Penn State University

 

[schafe]

Tuliptree Scale — Entomology — Penn State University

Thanks. Yeah, I had already visited that site before I used the Bayer stuff. I figured (hoped) that was what they were referencing in the article as "systemic insecticides".

 

[Fishersjohn48]

The "Bayer Stuff" is more than likely imidacloprid, or Merit. It is a systemic insecticide that will work but it takes several weeks for it to translocate throughout a tree that tall. Merit is notorius for being slow to move. Medicap Acecap insecticide works very well for tulip scale and will translocate quicker in the tree. They are easy to install in the tree and you should be able to find them at a quality garden center. https://www.google.com/search?q=imi....,cf.osb&fp=89e88d5ec786cdc9&biw=1366&bih=673

 

[schafe]

The "Bayer Stuff" is more than likely imidacloprid, or Merit. It is a systemic insecticide that will work but it takes several weeks for it to translocate throughout a tree that tall. Merit is notorius for being slow to move. Medicap Acecap insecticide works very well for tulip scale and will translocate quicker in the tree. They are easy to install in the tree and you should be able to find them at a quality garden center. https://www.google.com/search?q=imi....,cf.osb&fp=89e88d5ec786cdc9&biw=1366&bih=673

Thanks for the tip.
Yes, the Bayer insecticide is Imidacloprid.
I had been looking for something to inject and had not seenMedicap Acecap. It seems logical that it would work faster by being more directly inserted into the tree.

 

[4sarge]

The woods in SW Indiana are totally covered with the wet drippings off the Poplars.

 

[schafe]

The woods in SW Indiana are totally covered with the wet drippings off the Poplars.

I've looked at some other Tulip Poplars in the area, and many, (not all) have the same scale insects, and the scales are dripping sap profusely. My trees have had small infestations before, but nothing this bad.
I'm wondering if the mild winter exacerbated this, and if there is any really positive way to get completely rid of them, as there seems to be some disagreement about this.

 

[sadclownwp]

Kill the bugs with Fire!!!!!

 

[singlestacksig]

get lady bugs.

 

[Angie]

My mom had the same problem. She mixed dawn and water and sprayed it on the tree. Took care of it.