Not only a pest of Asian box, but any box.
We had the caterpillars in our garden. I zapped them with a systemic.
Link to RHS page and short survey which please complete if your plants have suffered.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=760
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Asian box moth
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Re: Asian box moth
From observation, they seem to prefer the lower parts of box bushes, and the older growth, under the protection of the newer shoots, where they are protected from birds, I guess. They were so bad this year I have removed and burnt all my box bushes. I noted a few days ago in a garden centre that there is a pheromone trap now marketed to combat them.
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Re: Asian box moth
Nimrod103 wrote:I noted a few days ago in a garden centre that there is a pheromone trap now marketed to combat them
The "scent of Asian box" box?
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