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Does anyone know what this is?!

Foxgloves.395Foxgloves.395 Posts: 2
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Hello! I’m hoping someone can solve this for me! Does anyone know what this pile of wooden looking pellets under my lilac tree is? It keeps appearing? Is it a pest or animal dropping? It’s always in the exact same spot but I can’t identify anywhere in the lilac it could be coming from...any insight appreciated! 

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  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
    It’s possible they are the leftovers of a spider’s meals...
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Is something boring into the lilac? Any holes there? 
  • ERICS MUMERICS MUM Posts: 627
    Looks like a lilac borer.  A moth lays eggs and the pupa and larva live on/in the tree, I assume on the soft wood inside a branch.  They they hatch and clear off !


  • Foxgloves.395Foxgloves.395 Posts: 2
    Thanks for responding! I will have a look - I couldn’t see any holes in the tree but it sounds like that might be right! I was worried it might affect the decking we’ve just put down around it but hopefully it’s a lilac-only thing! 
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