Yates Success Ultra Insect Control Concentrate
Helps control common caterpillars, thrips, codling moth and tomato potato psyllid. Contains spinetoram derived from beneficial soil bacteria.
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Hymenoptera
Caliroa cerasi
What are Pear & Cherry Slugs?
The Pear and Cherry Slug eats the leaves of pears, cherries, apples, plums, quinces and hawthorns. The adult lays its eggs in the leaf, which become slug-like larvae. After feeding on leaves, they drop to the ground and dig into the soil before appearing again as adults and restarting the cycle.
Symptoms
Slug like grubs eating holes in leaves, skeletonised leaves.
Plants impacted
- Pears
- Cherries
- Apples
- Plums
- Quinces
- Hawthorns
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