1 Nearly one-fifth (19%) of juvenile violent crimes occur in the 4 hours between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on school days. 2  A smaller proportion of juvenile violent crime (15%) occurs during the standard juvenile curfew hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. (inclusive of both school and nonschool days).
Cause. Sooty mold is a fungal disease initiated by a combination of feeding insects, such as whiteflies and aphids, and fungi. Insects feed on the gardenia for the sap in the foliage and stems. The insects take in large amounts of sap and expel the leftover as a sticky liquid called honeydew.
Scales, another insect that secretes honeydew as it sucks plant juices from the plant, may also cause the growth of sooty mold that covers plant parts. In the crape myrtle, the first sign of these tiny sucking insects may be the appearance of black sooty mold lining the trunk and branches.