"Roy A. Fletcher" wrote in message
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nutso fasst ) wrote:
English elm has invaded our natural landscapes and is rapidly
replacing snowberry, rose and oregon grape. It is even replacing
Scotch broom and gorse.
We would love to have some of those little critters to strip the bark
and slow down the spread of the elm.

These are Chinese elm; we call them 'weed trees' because they pop up all
over and grow so fast. It wasn't until last year that I noticed major bark
stripping; this year a couple of young (40' or so) trees have the top 50% of
their branches stripped bare. That didn't bother me. But this week I
discovered an old chinese silk tree had the top of a major low branch
stripped bare!