Today we noticed these small moths swarming all over the hedge. Its a recently identified Maryland and Virginia non native pest that will strip euonymus. Here's my bugfiles entry for it. Interestingly, I had the comment that that swarmed on the same date , Oct 30, last year too. I now have a reason to feel OK about not getting around to pruning these hedges earlier this fall; now when I prune I'll be getting rid of some of the eggs.
Oops, I ,eant to put this link in to Bugfiles-http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/865/
This message was edited Oct 30, 2007 11:03 PM
euonymus leaf notcher is swarming MD,VA
Does this mean it's time to move the clocks back? What kind of Euonymus is it eating?
Huh. Interesting. I'll keep my eyes peeled.
I have the old evergreen Euonymus, japonicus? but I think it eats the other kinds too, In fact I did notice a wild burning bush that got stripped this year in my fence line, so I guess that was good news.
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