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I have had scale on my tropicals once or twice.... I did not find them hard to get rid of once I found them. They will spread quickly if you are not paying attention. Though it is not available everywhere, we are lucky to be able to buy and use Cygon insecticide here. I usually go to one of the do it yourself pest control places to buy it as the big box stores rarely have it in stock. Two teaspoons in a gallon of water in a pump up sprayer and give everything a good soaking in it. Gets rid of aphids, scale and that nasty girdle beetle that junipers get sometimes. Those are the main pests that I have to deal with. I spray about 3 times through the summer on the junipers just as a precaution. I spray the tropicals only when I see a problem.

Cygon will not harm anything that I am aware of. I have used it on Fukien Tea, malpigghias, junipers....oh, I forgot, my elm didn't seem to care for it so I don't spray the elm trees with it. But boxwoods, anything else I have named, especially pine trees for Pine Tip Moth...very bad here....kill a pine before you know it's infected. Cygon is great stuff.