Who's this eating my hedge - please help with id and solution
 

lovely viburnum hedge is being chomped to bits I can't find a leaf without
holes in - infested with insects - seen in the insets in the picture -
thousands of them

What are they?
how can I control them ?

http://www.nasuwt.net/~nikvenn/pests.jpg

Please help



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Who's this eating my hedge - please help with id and solution
 

"NikV" wrote in message
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lovely viburnum hedge is being chomped to bits I can't find a leaf without
holes in - infested with insects - seen in the insets in the picture -
thousands of them

What are they?
how can I control them ?

http://www.nasuwt.net/~nikvenn/pests.jpg

Please help

Looks like Viburnam Beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni, which overwinters on the
plant in nooks and crannies as eggs. Spray with Bifenthrin or Pyrethrum now
and again in the late spring when the lavae start their damage.

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK

Who's this eating my hedge - please help with id and solution
 

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"NikV" wrote in message
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lovely viburnum hedge is being chomped to bits I can't find a leaf
without holes in - infested with insects - seen in the insets in the
picture - thousands of them

What are they?
how can I control them ?

http://www.nasuwt.net/~nikvenn/pests.jpg

Please help

Looks like Viburnam Beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni, which overwinters on the
plant in nooks and crannies as eggs. Spray with Bifenthrin or Pyrethrum
now and again in the late spring when the lavae start their damage.

--
Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK


brilliant thank you very much

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