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Resistant bug

jazwaxjazwax Posts: 2
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This bug is destroying a beautiful bush in my garden. I've tried various pesticides but nothing seems to even aggravate it, let alone, kill it. I definitely need help in identifying this bug and finding a solution to killing it before a thirty year old bush dies. Thanks in advance.


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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It looks like Euonymus scale
    Some info from the RHS here should help-
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/euonymus-scale

    Billericay - Essex

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  • jazwaxjazwax Posts: 2
    Thanks for the info. I've looked it up on the RHS site and it's definitely the same bug. Now I know its name, I should be able to target it more effectively. 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I get it on my euonymus hedge every year - I don't spray it and it hasn't done a lot of harm, but hedge is quite out of sight, so I don't see it often

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    I got this pest on my 20 year-old Euonymus. Finally got fed up and uprooted it without any regret.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Euonymus can take hard pruning, I pruned a shrub back to almost ground level and it is now very healthy again. I have noticed Scale insect on another one but not so bad so will try just light pruning.
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