Zeuzera pyrina

Leopard moth

Principle Hosts

Apples, Pears, Plums, Almonds, Olives, Walnuts, Chestnuts, Oak, Elm, Willow

Global Distribution 

Central and Southern Europe, Asia (Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Syria, Iran Israel, Turkey, Lebanon)

Damage & Symptoms

Larvae are wood-borers that feed inside twigs and stems of hosted trees. The first sign of damage maybe broken twigs and branches with yellow, wilted foliage. On older trees, look for quantities of white to yellowish frass on bark crevices and on the ground

Method of Control

Mass Trapping & Monitoring

Application

A) Mass Trapping: 12-16 traps are required per hectare placed 50 cm from the canopy of tree

B) Monitoring: 1-2 traps are required per hectare.

Trap Type

Delta & Funnel traps