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| Analysis - view details of type of pest/disease/disorder | |
| Symptoms | Feeding on leaves from the rim, often total defoliation; caterpillars in cocoons, up to 50mm in length, with dark, whitish, yellowish or reddish hairs, on the back two rows of brown spots; butterfly up to 42mm, brown, on the forewing one thin white cross-line and a small white spot; on the back wing one indistinct white cross-line. | |
| Impact | Widespread in Europe, but epiidemics only local; total defoliation on various broadleaved shrubs and trees, rarely with subsequent damage to twigs and branches. | |
| Control | Hardly any necessary | |
| Hosts | Maple; Apple; Birch; Pear; Oak; Cherry; Linden, Lime; Willow; Hawthorne; | |
| Affected plant parts | Leaf; Leaf; Shoot/Twig/Branch; |
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| Small eggar moth – caterpillars feeding from birch |
Small eggar moth – caterpillars feeding from birch |
Small eggar moth – caterpillar |
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