{"id":799,"date":"2018-11-28T08:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2025-10-02T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:42:55","slug":"christmas-trees-harbor-various-pests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree Hitchhikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There could be up to 25,000 bugs living in your Christmas tree. Thirty-Three million natural Christmas trees are sold in the United States every year. Insects brought into the warmth of a home behave as though spring has come and become active again.<\/p>\n<h2>Some common pests hiding in your Christmas tree:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mites<\/li>\n<li>Sawfly<\/li>\n<li>Aphids<\/li>\n<li>Spiders<\/li>\n<li>Adelgids<\/li>\n<li>Bark Beetles<\/li>\n<li>Praying Mantises<\/li>\n<li>Pine Needle Scale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pest Prevention:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vigorously shake the tree before bringing it into your home.<\/li>\n<li>Look out for bird nests, since they may contain parasites such as mites and lice.<\/li>\n<li>Beware Spruce Spider mites appear as tiny red and brown dots when shaken out of Christmas trees. Vaccuum all discarded fallen droppings.<\/li>\n<li>Cinara Aphids and their eggs are often hidden down inside the lower branches of Christmas trees where they are hard to find.<\/li>\n<li>The Praying Mantis and Gypsy Moth will lay eggs in Christmas trees. Look for the walnut-sized tan egg masses. If you find any, remove them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There could be up to 25,000 bugs living in your Christmas tree. Thirty-Three million natural Christmas trees are sold in the United States every year. Insects brought into the warmth of a home behave as though spring has come and become active again. Some common pests hiding in your Christmas tree: Mites Sawfly Aphids Spiders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32,119],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pest-control","tag-bugs","tag-christmas-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}