We have quite a lot of box hedging in our garden, and are dreading the day box blight afflicts us. Last week we noticed lots of bare patches, and thought it had finally arrived. But on closer inspection it didn't look like blight.
That's not blight. It's been munched! Even closer inspection revealed caterpillars...
Some googling suggested these might be due to invasive box-tree moth caterpillars. Further googling suggested a pheromone trap might help if that was the case. Off to buy a pheromone trap...
After hanging it in the garden for only a couple of days, the diagnosis was confirmed:
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| my god, it's full of moths! |
Hopefully that's stopped any further caterpillars this year. If we hang it out next spring, we should be able to stop a recurrence. And the box has grown back a bit. So that's all good. Until the box blight eventually hits...
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