{"id":8754,"date":"2026-02-18T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/?p=8754"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:31:17","slug":"tea-scale-pests-emerge-in-early-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/tea-scale-pests-emerge-in-early-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea scale pests emerge in early spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Tea scale are tiny, sap-sucking insects common across the Southeast U.S. as well as in Texas and California. These pests attach themselves to the underside of leaves, feeding on plant sap. The result is unsightly stippling on the upper surface of leaves. In severe cases, the infested plant can experience dieback or begin dropping leaves early.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Favorite host plants<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Tea scale is a major pest of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/tree-advice-and-resources\/technical-reports\/camellia-plant-heath-care-recommendations\">camellias<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/tree-species\/holly\">hollies<\/a>. In fact, the pest likely first became established in the U.S. after being imported here on camellias. You can commonly find it on a number of additional ornamental trees and shrubs such as dogwood, bottlebrush, boxwood and euonymus.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p>The insects can be difficult to spot. They are primarily located on the underside of the leaf. Males produce a white covering while adult females are flat and brown. The immature crawlers are small and yellow. Tea scale populations often grow unchecked and untreated with multiple generations overlapping and resulting damage quickly progressing. In these severe cases, there are so many pests present at different lifecycle stages that the leaf undersides can have an almost fuzzy appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8759\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Adult-males-under-white-covering-adult-females-oval-and-brown-immature-crawlers-small-and-yellow.jpg\" alt=\"Adult males under white covering, adult females oval and brown, immature crawlers small and yellow\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Adult-males-under-white-covering-adult-females-oval-and-brown-immature-crawlers-small-and-yellow.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Adult-males-under-white-covering-adult-females-oval-and-brown-immature-crawlers-small-and-yellow-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Adult-males-under-white-covering-adult-females-oval-and-brown-immature-crawlers-small-and-yellow-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Adult-males-under-white-covering-adult-females-oval-and-brown-immature-crawlers-small-and-yellow-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Adult-males-under-white-covering-adult-females-oval-and-brown-immature-crawlers-small-and-yellow-1536x1149.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adult males under white covering, adult females oval and brown, immature crawlers small and yellow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Tea scale activity in early spring<\/h3>\n<p>In the warm, humid climates where it thrives, tea scale can remain active year-round. However, eggs in other areas generally hatch between March and April and the crawlers begin feeding as they mature. Some warmer regions in <a href=\"https:\/\/planthardiness.ars.usda.gov\/\">USDA zones 7-10<\/a> may see emergence as early as February.\u00a0 Infestation actively spreads during the crawler stage and this is also the time during which you should apply treatments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8760\" style=\"width: 1632px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tea-scale-infestation-on-leaf-undersides-e1771446066385.jpg\" alt=\"tea scale infestation on leaf undersides\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tea-scale-infestation-on-leaf-undersides-e1771446066385.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tea-scale-infestation-on-leaf-undersides-e1771446066385-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tea-scale-infestation-on-leaf-undersides-e1771446066385-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tea-scale-infestation-on-leaf-undersides-e1771446066385-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tea-scale-infestation-on-leaf-undersides-e1771446066385-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea scale infestation on leaf undersides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Management of tea scale<\/h3>\n<p>There are some insect predators of tea scale, but often not enough to sufficiently manage outbreaks. Application of horticultural oil can reduce pests overwintering on the leaves. The best time to treat active infestation is as soon as crawlers emerge. Repeat visits and routine monitoring, especially of favored hosts, can ensure the insects are identified and treated early &#8211; before serious damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea scale are tiny, sap-sucking insects common across the Southeast U.S. as well as in Texas and California. These pests attach themselves to the underside of leaves, feeding on plant sap. The result is unsightly stippling on the upper surface of leaves. In severe cases, the infested plant can experience dieback or begin dropping leaves&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bartlett.com\/blog\/tea-scale-pests-emerge-in-early-spring\/\">Read More<span> Tea scale pests emerge in early spring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pests-and-diseases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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