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Caterpillars eating leaves

bbari · 2017-06-07 11:03:17

Hi folks, I planted few trees in the back garden last November. Trees are doing well except the Silver Birch which have caterpillars eating the leaves. I noticed the leaves had holes on them but only noticed the caterpillars today. What can I use to get rid off em ? They also not strong enough to stay up / straight. Cornus…

07-06-2017 11:03am

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bbari

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Hi folks,

I planted few trees in the back garden last November. Trees are doing well except the Silver Birch which have caterpillars eating the leaves. I noticed the leaves had holes on them but only noticed the caterpillars today. What can I use to get rid off em ?

They also not strong enough to stay up / straight.

Cornus Kousa doesn't have any caterpillars on it but the tree doesn't look too healthy.

I got Fish bone fertiliser at the time, should I put some around the trees ?

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#2 07-06-2017 11:56am

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that second pic looks like sawfly larvae?
just pick them off?

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