Author Topic: Tiny black caterpillars eating next door neighbour's Willow  (Read 2154 times)

shambasarfi

  • Quarter Acre
  • **
  • Posts: 56
  • Growing vegetables in our back garden
Hiya,

Just curious really.  I noticed that my next door neighbour's willow is infested with tiny black caterpillars that are eating the flesh part of the leaves and leaving the veins and stems.  They all gather around the edge of a leaf and wave in the wind and, in essence, look like part of the leaf.  I have pointed them out to my neighbour, who is a tree surgeon and he's going to get a spray, but I just wondered whether anybody would know what moth or butterfly they are caterpillars of?

Shamba
When a man tries to drown his sorrows he generally makes his head swim!

Eristic

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,824
  • NW London (Brent)
    • Down the Plot
Re: Tiny black caterpillars eating next door neighbour's Willow
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2009, 12:54:26 »
They sound more like sawfly larve. There are a number specific to willow.

 

anything
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal