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  • Yellow tailed moth on plum tree

    I hadn't realised what the cobwebby tents in the tree meant until I saw caterpillars on the lower leaves of my plum tree. Luckily when I googled I found it was yellow tailed, not brow tailed moth, which is even more irritating.
    Yellow-tail Euproctis similis - UKMoths
    We've pruned out the tents, and disposed of the branches (which hadn't come into leaf properly anyway). The tents were full of caterpillars, which had just started to come out . I'm also squashing any caterpillars I find. I will know what to look for in the future , I've never come across them before.
    Last edited by BarleySugar; 16-05-2012, 05:58 PM.
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    I think I have seen the caterpillars but never the tents. Always wondered which moth they were.
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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