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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: shambasarfi on June 07, 2009, 12:44:54

Title: Tiny black caterpillars eating next door neighbour's Willow
Post by: shambasarfi on June 07, 2009, 12:44:54
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
Title: Re: Tiny black caterpillars eating next door neighbour's Willow
Post by: Eristic on June 07, 2009, 12:54:26
They sound more like sawfly larve. There are a number specific to willow.