Tips of emerging leaves appear brown and scorched, and often shrivel and rot.

Brown spots appear on the leaves and flowers, both of which may also rot.

Perhaps you've noticed orange jelly-like balls on juniper branches in the spring of the year. Plant diseases show their faces in a variety of ways -- some stranger than others. Consider the disease, Juniper-Hawthorn Rust, also known as cedar-apple rust. The fungus that causes this disease will produce orange jelly-like balls on juniper branches. This orange gelatinous material, which contains thousands of spores, oozes out of chocolate-colored galls present on affected branches. Spores then are carried by the wind to the pathogen's alternate host.

Circular black spots 1/4 inch in diameter appear on upper leaf surfaces. Each black spot is surrounded by a yellow halo. As the spots enlarge and coalesce, the entire leaf turns yellow and falls from the plant.

Ladybug or Ladybird Beetle - Phylum, Arthropoda; Class, Insecta; Order, Coleoptera

You should encourage these little bugs, not discourage them. Minute pirate bugs belong to the order Heteroptera, or true bugs, and they feed on many plant pests including aphids, leafhoppers, spider mites, lace bugs, whiteflies, scales, plant bugs, flies, caterpillars and even other insect's eggs. These are one of the most beneficial insects you can have in your yard.

Wireworm / Click Beetle - Elongate brown or black "click' beetle"; flips in air when placed on its back.

Stout, oval; 10 yellow and 10 black stripes down back, which is very convex.