Re: What ate the viburnum?
- Subject: Re: What ate the viburnum?
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:34:52 -0400
Those bleedin' saw fly larvae denude my yellow-twig dogwoods every
year. I always mean to get out the Bt and by the time I think of it,
they've done it again. The shrubs leaf out again but I know it's not
making them really happy. Nasty things, those larvae.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Barb Pernacciaro <barp@idcnet.com>
>
> I think you are going to have to patrol the bush. One year I
noticed a large
> number of caterpillars on a couple of dogwoods and tried to
identify them.
> The closest I could find were sawfly larvae. Anyway, I sprayed the
bushes
> with insecticide and that took care of them. This year the darn
dogwoods
> (red-twig and yellow twig) had a lot of die-back, but this was due
to late
> season drought last year. They are coming back in good shape (it
was one way
> to get me to prune; they needed it).
>
> -Barb in WI
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