Viburnum Beetle

Yes, i know of a lot of peole who are being bothered by these pests, i can see a small amount of damage on mine but nothing too severe.

In my garden it's common caterpillars that do all the damage, they much through all the heucheras aswell as small trees and shrubs

 

Must go and look at mine Shiney have a couple of really large ones, already have some pretty huge shrubs to remove that have died over the winter including my 2 beautiful pittosporum, living in hope they may recover but stems are brown and brittle so don't think it'll happen, don't want to loose any more.
With us its flippin rabbits Louise, too large an area to fence it all so just have to cover things they're partial too with wire netting and hope foxy loxy does his worst, ate every single flower on my bergenias but left the leaves alone!!!!!!

 

Shiney,have you got any photos of the damage that has been done please as it would be interesting to see what the affected bush looks like,Thanks

 

Hi Shiney,

Many thanks for putting up the photos for us to see The devastation looks really bad and I don't blame you for resorting to using sprays to try to save your bushes and hope that it solves the problem :yess:

All around our village the landscapers have put in hedges that have been ruined by some bug and they all look quiet bad.I asked Mr Kandy just now after seeing your photos and he said Viburnum Beetle although he doesn't think the bushes are off that species damage so will have to keep an eye on our bushes although we don't have any varigated ones just the normal plain ones but they are not that large yet ....