Approximately 3,600,000 boxwoods are produced each year by nurserymen in the southeastern United States. Although handsome and stately plants, boxwoods are sometimes difficult to grow. In the wrong situation, boxwoods are susceptible to leafminers, wax scales, and other insects as well as spider mites, nematodes, and various root diseases. Heavily infested plants have distorted and discolored leaves Boxwood psyllid - New growth is distorted and cup shaped.
Spider mites -The leaves are speckled with tiny, pale dots.
The whole shrub may appear off-color, gray, or bronzed. Twospotted spider mite - Damage appears as aggregates of single dots. The eggs are round and often reddish.