"arien" wrote in message
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We have this little catepillar type beast, which is stripping the leaves
and all that is left is like a skeleton of the leaf. This bug has nearly
killed two of our young gum trees, and is close to engulfing another
larger (still young) gum tree. The garden centre suggested we spray the
trees with carbaryl, but the little blighters don't seem to mind the
stuff at all. Does anyone know what this caterpillar thing is, and what
will kill it (before they kill the trees)?


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Mel

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As someone else replied, I would guess it's Sawfly Larvae too, if the grubs
fit the description they gave.

We had them on many of the gums at work, mostly on the ones ranging from
about a metre, to 3m tall. We opted for knocking the grubs onto the ground
and squashing them, as it wasn't to viable to spray an insecticide into
trees up to 3m tall.
I would have thought Carbaryl would have killed them. Perhaps Rogor will.
But try squashing them first.

Good luck

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