Box hedges

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• janethusband5 Posts: 3

  July 2017

  Help !!

  I thought my box hedges and the dreaded blight, but on closer inspection I have seen a large number of caterpillars are eating the leaves

  in the space of a few days the plants have lost all the leaves and turned brown, it is spreading like wild fire

  what if anything can be done????

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• KeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831

  July 2017

  Pick them off as regularly as yout can. In my experience you only need to do this for a month or so, after which any that are left will turn into moths. The plants will revive, although they look unsightly. 

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• janethusband5 Posts: 3

  July 2017

  thanks for that but I have 25  box hedges in various shapes and sizes, some I have had for 10 years....

  I have tried picking off the caterpillars but there is to many, they are sprending very fast

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