Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Thursday 17 September 2015

Buff-tip

Yesterday morning, after I'd parked my car further down the driveway than usual, I noticed that the car roof had been showered with frass overnight. Sure enough, a quick glance up to the cherry tree showed some heavy defoliation high up in the canopy. Later when I got home from work, a quick search with bins revealed a large number of larvae in several groups. I got the ladders out and lopped off a branch with some larvae to check them out and rear through. Turned out to be Buff-tip - another new breeding species for the garden list.

3 comments:

Steve Gale said...

Welcome back to the land of blogging Skev...

Skev said...

I'm sure it's just a blip Steve ...... barely got time to point the camera at anything just lately.

Trent Duval said...

Ah yes, I remember that Skev bloke !
Interesting to see Buff-tip on Cherry, they usually de-foliate about 25% of my native Silver Birch but my Cherry tree, which is 5 metres away, has never been attacked.