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Box Elder Bug

Box Elder Bug

Host Plants: Box Elder Trees, Manitoba Maple, Silver Maple, Ash Trees and sunny sides of buildings in late summer and fall. Damage: They do not bite or sting. They do not damage structures and generally a minor plant feeder and rarely cause significant tree damage....

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BOX TREE MOTH; THE NEW INVASIVE INSECT IN ONTARIO

BOX TREE MOTH; THE NEW INVASIVE INSECT IN ONTARIO

History: Boxwoods are planted as ornamentals and typically used for edging, as hedges, and/or clipped into different shapes to make topiaries. However when infested, the plants are disfigured by the loss of leaves, by webbing spun by the larvae, as well as larval...

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BLACK VINE WEEVIL

BLACK VINE WEEVIL

HOST PLANT(S): Azalea, Rhododendron, Euonymus, Arborvitae, Hemlock and Yew DAMAGE: Black vine weevil larvae cause serious injury by eating fibrous roots or stripping the bark off larger roots. Foliage of plants injured by weevil larvae may turn brown or die suddenly....

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