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Cherry Slug
Cherry Slug is a troublesome pest that eats the leaves of cherry, pear, quince, plum, medlar and hawthorn trees. Its the larvae of the sawfly wasp, which lays its eggs on the leaves in October - November which munch on the leaves. They can skeletonise the leaves on these trees within weeks and stop the tree from making any more food or leaves for the remainder of the growing season. There are often 2-3 waves of cherry slug during the summer as the larvae mature and fly off to lay more eggs.
Treatment is to kill them by squashing, or throw wood ash over the leaves can kill them. A better way is to pray the leaves with a commercial preparation of an extract from a natural occurring soil bacteria - spinosad or spinetoram are examples of what you can buy. This is spayed on the leaves and anything that munches leaves is killed - like caterpillar and cherry slug. It doesn't effect beneficial insects.
Cherry slug will only ever be controlled rather than eliminated, as there are host trees that aren't treated and allow the sawfly to fly back to your orchard and re-infect.
Cherry Slug is a troublesome pest that eats the leaves of cherry, pear, quince, plum, medlar and hawthorn trees. Its the larvae of the sawfly wasp, which lays its eggs on the leaves in October - November which munch on the leaves. They can skeletonise the leaves on these trees within weeks and stop the tree from making any more food or leaves for the remainder of the growing season. There are often 2-3 waves of cherry slug during the summer as the larvae mature and fly off to lay more eggs.
Treatment is to kill them by squashing, or throw wood ash over the leaves can kill them. A better way is to pray the leaves with a commercial preparation of an extract from a natural occurring soil bacteria - spinosad or spinetoram are examples of what you can buy. This is spayed on the leaves and anything that munches leaves is killed - like caterpillar and cherry slug. It doesn't effect beneficial insects.
Cherry slug will only ever be controlled rather than eliminated, as there are host trees that aren't treated and allow the sawfly to fly back to your orchard and re-infect.
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