My Apple tree (hopefully soon to be an Espalier) is under attack! I noticed a couple of leaves were skeletal, nothing left but the main veins, on closed inspection I noticed lots of little green caterpillar's busily munching away many of the appearing to hang by their jaws only - quite an impressive feat really.
Rather than squish them all or use a pesticide I detached the leaves which where a lost cause anyway and discarded to a wild bit of the garden where they can take their chances but will probably just become part of the food chain, on checking the rest of the tree I couldn't see anything resembling eggs so I'm hoping that's the last of them.
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| Leafroller Catapillars? |
I've been trying to identify exactly what they are, lots of Google image searching for Green Caterpillar with Black Head on Apple Tree Leaf hasn't managed to confirm, I initially thought they were Leafroller Caterpillar's - that said I couldn't find any evidence of leaf rolling, might be they are too young, and the heads seem to be darker plus these have a row of black dot's down each side - can anyone confirm what these are?
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