Subject: Overcame with bugs
Location: Southeast new mexico
June 5, 2015 6:34 pm
All of a sudden these showed up and within a week how do I get rid of them. In a week they killed a very healthy Spanish broom bush.
Signature: What to do
This is a Sophora Worm or Genista Broom Moth Caterpillar, Uresiphita reversalis, and a year ago they defoliated a Golden Chain Tree in our own Los Angeles garden. The leaves grew back and the tree survived.