grey dagger caterpillar
I live a new build house - the builders planted a young rowan tree in
the front garden. In summer, it started dropping leaves and although it never dropped them all, the tree looks a bit limp and poorly. At the same time (and again this morning) I found grey dagger caterpillars on it. Firstly, should the rowan have dropped its leaves so early, and second, how harmful is the caterpillar? ta, g. |
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 11:40:58 +0100, Fat Freddy's Cat
wrote: I live a new build house - the builders planted a young rowan tree in the front garden. In summer, it started dropping leaves and although it never dropped them all, the tree looks a bit limp and poorly. At the same time (and again this morning) I found grey dagger caterpillars on it. Firstly, should the rowan have dropped its leaves so early, and second, how harmful is the caterpillar? ta, g. Don't know about the caterpillar (but obviously it won't be doing the rowan any actual good), but if the rowan is newly planted earlier this year, it's unlikely it will have developed a good root action yet, and it was pretty dry earlier in the summer. Did you water it? -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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