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Cherokee County

Common Plant Problems in Kansas

Plant & pest problems are listed in alphabetical order.

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Ash, Mycosphaerella Leaf Spot

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Blister Beetles

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Cottonwood Borer

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Dollar Spot

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Elm Leaf Beetle

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Fall Army Worm

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Grapes, Black Rot

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Harlequin Bug

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Iris Leaf Spot

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Juniper Brown Coloration

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Kentucky Bluegrass Leaf Spot

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Lilac Borer

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Minute Pirate Bugs

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Natural Needle Drop

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Oak Gall Midge

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Peach Bacterial Spot

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Rust on Turfgrass

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San Jose Scale

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Tobacco Hornworm on Tomato

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Verticillium Wilt of Trees

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Waterlogged Soils

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Yellow-necked Caterpillar

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Zoysiagrass Billbug

17-Year Periodical Cicadas

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Algae and Moss
Anthracnose, Sycamore and other Shade Trees
Anthracnose of Turf 
Anthracnose, Watermelon, Cucumber, Muskmelon
Ants
Aphids
Apple, Cedar-Apple Rust
Apple, Codling Moth
Apple, Fireblight
Apple, Russeting
Apple, Powdery Mildew
Apple Scab
Apple, Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck
Apricot, Bacterial Spot
Apricot, Brown Rot
Apricot, Gummosis
Apricot, Perennial Canker
Apricot, Pitburn
Apricot, Scab
Apricot, Split Pit
Arborvitae Fall Needle Drop
Arborvitae, Seiridium Canker
Armyworms and Cutworms
Ash, Anthracnose
Ash Borer
Ash, Emerald Ash Borer
Ash Flower Gall Mite 
Ash, Mycosphaerella Leaf Spot
Ash Plant Bug
Ash, Rust
Ash Sawfly
Asparagus Beetle
Aster Yellows

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Bacterial Spot or Speck of Tomato
Bacterial Wilt of Vine Crops

Bagworms
Bark Shedding
Bark Splitting
Bean Leaf Beetle 
Bee, Carpenter
Bermudagrass, Spring Dead Spot
Billbug, Bluegrass and Zoysia
Birch, Bronze Birch Borer
Black Knot
Black Rot on Grapes
Blackberry, Green June Beetle
Blackberry, Tan Drupelets
Bleeding Cankers on Shade Trees 
Blister Beetles
Blossom-End Rot 
Blueberry, Iron Chlorosis
Bluegrass Billbug 
Borers in Trees
Botryosphaeria Canker of Juniper 
Botryosphaeria Canker of Oak
Boxelder Bug
Broccoli, Cabbage Looper
Broccoli, Imported Cabbageworm
Bronze Birch Borer
Brown Patch of Turf
Brown Rot of Fruit
Budworms 
Burning Bush Spider Mites

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Cabbage Looper
Cabbage, Imported Cabbageworm
Cankerworm 
Carpenter Ants
Carpenter Bees 
Cauliflower, Cabbage Looper
Cauliflower, Imported Cabbagwworm
Cedar-Apple Rust 
Cherry, Black Knot
Cherry, Brown Rot
Cherry, Gummosis
Cherry Leaf Spot 
Chiggers
Chinch Bug
Cicada Killer
Clover
Codling Moth 
Colorado Potato Beetle
Corn Earworm
Corn Smut 
Cottonwood Borer 
Crabapple, Cedar-Apple Rust
Crabapple, Fireblight
Crabapple, Powdery Mildew
Crabapple, Scab
Crabgrass
Cucumber, Anthracnose
Cucumber, Bacterial Wilt
Cucumber Beetle
Cucumber, Bitterness
Cucumber Mosaic Virus
Cucumber, Powdery Mildew
Cutworms

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Dandelion
Dodder
Dollar Spot on Turf
Diplodia Tip Blight of Pine
Dothistroma Needle Blight of Pine
Dutch Elm Disease

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Earthworms in the Lawn
Eastern Tent Caterpillar
Elm, Dutch Elm Disease
Elm Flea Weevil
Elm Leaf Beetle
Elm Pocket Gall 
Elm, Woolly Elm Aphid
Emerald Ash Borer
Environmental Stress on Trees
Euonymus Scale 
European Pine Sawfly

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Fall Armyworm
Fall Webworm
Fireblight
Flatid Planthopper
Flea Beetle
Flooding and Plants
Freeze and Frost Damage in Spring
Frost Cracks on Trees

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Galls of Trees
Galls, Vein Pocket Gall of Oak
Geranium Budworms
Grape, Black Rot
Grape, Downy Mildew
Grasshoppers
Grassy Sandbur
Gray Leaf Spot on Perennial Ryegrass
Green June Beetles
Grubs, White
Gummosis

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Hackberry, Island Chlorosis
Hackberry Nipple Gall Maker
Harlequin Bug
Henbit and Chickweed
Herbicide Damage on Garden Plants
Herbicide Damage to Trees, Shrubs, Turf and Garden Plants
Hollyhock Rust
Hollyhock Weevil
Honeylocust, Plant Bug/Leafhopper Complex
Honeysuckle Aphid
Hypoxylon Canker

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Impatiens Downy Mildew
Iris, Bacterial Soft Rot
Iris Borer
Iris Leaf Spot
Iris Weed Control
Iron Chlorosis of Blueberry
Iron Chlorosis of Herbaceous Plants 
Iron Chlorosis of Trees
Island Chlorosis of Hackberry

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Japanese Beetle
Juniper, Botryosphaeria Canker
Juniper, Brown Coloration
Juniper, Cercospora Needle Blight
Juniper, Kabatina Tip Blight
Juniper, Phomopsis Tip Blight
Juniper, Root Diseases
Juniper Webworm

 

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Kentucky Bluegrass, Dollar Spot
Kentucky Bluegrass, Leaf Spot
Kentucky Bluegrass, Powdery Mildew
Kentucky Bluegrass, Rust
Kentucky Bluegrass, Sod Webworm
Kentucky Bluegrass, Stripe Smut
Kentucky Bluegrass, Summer Patch
Kermes Oak Scale

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Lace Bug
Lady Beetle, Asian 
Leaf Drop in Spring
Leaf Scorch 
Leaves That Don't Drop in the Fall 
Lecanium Scales
Lilac Borer
Lilac, Powdery Mildew
Lilac, Pseudomonas Blight
Little Barley

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Maple, Anthracnose
Maple Bladdergall Mite 
Mapleworm 
Mimosa Webworm 
Minute Pirate Bug 
Mite, Two-Spotted
Mite, Winter Grain 
Mite, Zoysiagrass and Bermudagrass
Moles
Mosquitos
Moss & Algae
Mushrooms in a Lawn
Muskmelon, Anthracnose
Muskmelon, Bacterial Wilt
Muskmelon, Powdery Mildew
Mycosphaerella Leaf Spot on Ash

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Nantucket Pine Tip Moth 
Natural Needle Drop
Nectarine, Bacterial Spot
Nectarine, Brown Rot
Nectarine, Gummosis
Nectarine, Perennial Canker
Nectarine, Pit Burn
Nectarine, Scab
Nectarine, Split Pit
Nematodes 
Nightcrawlers in the Lawn
Nutsedge

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Oak, Anthracnose
Oak, Botryosphaeria Canker
Oak, Galls
Oak Gall Midge
Oak, Hypoxylon Canker
Oak, Kermes Scale
Oak, Lecanium Scale
Oak Lace Bug
Oak, Obscure Scale
Oak, Scarlet Oak Sawfly
Oak Slug
Oak, Twig Dieback
Oak, Tubakia Leaf Spot
Oak, Vein Pocket Gall
Oak Wilt
ObscureScale
Orchard Grass

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Peach, Bacterial Spot
Peach, Brown Rot
Peach, Green June Beetle
Peach, Gummosis
Peach Leaf Curl 
Peach, Peachtree Borer
Peach, Perennial Canker
Peach, Pitburn
Peach Scab 
Peach, Split Pit
Pear, Fireblight
Pear, Russeting
Peony Measles
Peony, Powdery Mildew
Pear, Pseudomonas Blight
Pear, Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck
Pepper, Blossom-End Rot
Pepper, Sunscalded Fruit
Perennial Ryegrass, Gray Leaf Spot
Petunia Budworms
Pillbugs
Pine, Brown Spot
Pine, Dothistroma Needle Blight
Pine, European Pine Sawfly
Pine, Natural Needle Drop
Pine Needle Scale 
Pine, Tip Blight
Pine Tip Moth 
Pine Wilt
Plant Bug/Leafhopper on Honeylocust
Plum, Black Knot
Plum, Brown Rot
Plum Curculio
Plum, Gummosis
Plum, Perennial Canker
Plum Pocket 
Plum, Scab
Poison Ivy
Pollination Problems
Potato, Colorado Potato Beetle
Potato, Corky Bumps on Potato Tuber
Potato, Green Tubers
Potato, Growth Cracks
Potato, Internal Darkening 
Potato, Secondary Growth
Powdery Mildew of Apple and Crabapple
Powdery Mildew of Lilac
Powdery Mildew of Peony
Powdery Mildew of Turf
Pumpkin, Powdery Mildew


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Raspberry, Tan Drupelets
Rhubarb Crown Rot
Rhubarb Seedstalks
Roly-Poly 
Rose, Blackspot
Rose Mosaic Virus 
Rose Rosette
Rose Slug
Russian Olive, Phomopsis Canker
Rust on Turfgrass

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San Jose Scale
Sandbur, Grassy
Scorch of Trees and Shrubs
Slime Flux on Trees
Slime Mold
Slugs 
Sod Webworm
Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck of Apple 
Sooty Mold
Sowbugs
Spider Mites
Spider Mites, Burning Bush
Spittlebugs 
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Spring Dead Spot of Bermudagrass 
Spruce, Needle Drop and Twig Dieback
Spruce, Rhizosphaeria Needlecast 
Spruce Spider Mite
Squash, Blossom-End Rot
Squash Bug
Squash, Powdery Mildew
Squash Vine Borer 
Squirrel Damage
Stalk Borer
Stripe Smut of Turf
Summer Patch of Turf 
Sunscald on Trees
Sweet Corn, Earworm
Sweet Corn, Poorly Filled Ears 
Sycamore Anthracnose
Sycamore Lace Bug

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Tall Fescue, Brown Patch
Tent Caterpillar 
Termites
Thatch Control 
Tomato, Anthracnose
Tomato, Bacterial Canker
Tomato, Bacterial Speck or Spot
Tomato, Blister Beetles
Tomato, Blossom-End Rot
Tomato, Cracking
Tomato, Cucumber Mosaic Virus
Tomato, Early Blight
Tomato and Pepper, Fruit Not Setting On
Tomato, Fruit Slow to Ripen
Tomato Fruitworm 
Tomato, Fusarium and Verticillium Wilt
Tomato, Hard Core in Fruit
Tomato Hornworm 
Tomato, Leaf Roll 
Tomato, Septoria Leaf Spot
Tomato, Spider Mites
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
Tomato, Stink Bug Damage 
Tomato, Sunscalded Fruit
Tomato, Tobacco Mosaic Virus 
Tomato, Walnut Wilt
Tomato, Warty Stems
Trees, Bark Shedding
Trees, Bleeding Cankers
Trees, Borers
Trees, Control Unwanted Trees
Trees, Environmental Stress
Trees, Fall Webworm
Trees, Frost Cracks
Trees, Iron Chlorosis
Trees, Lack of Fall Color
Trees, Sunscald
Trees, Verticillium Wilt 
Trees, Winter Damage
Trees with Cavities
Trees with Mushroom Growth
Tubakia Leaf Spot of Oak
Twig Girdler
Two-Spotted Spider Mite

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Vein Pocket Gall of Oak
Verticillium Wilt of Trees 
Vine Crops Flowering But Not Setting Fruit

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Walnut Caterpillar
Walnut Wilt 
Warty Stems on Tomatoes
Waterlogged Soils
Watermelon Anthracnose
Watermelon, Powdery Mildew
Wetwood
Whiteflies
White Clover
White Grubs 
Wild Onion and Wild Garlic
Wild Violet
Winter Damage on Woody Plants
Winter Grain Mite

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Yellow Nutsedge
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Yellownecked Caterpillar 
Yew, Wet Feet

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Zoysiagrass Billbug
Zoysiagrass and Bermudagrass Mites 
Zoysiagrass, Chinch Bug
Zoysiagrass, Large Patch