Horse Chestnut leaf showing signs of damage by the mining moth which is becoming widespread in the UK
A leaf from a horse chestnut tree showing damaged signs of horse chesnut leaf-mining moth, brown patches on the leaves which cause premature leaf fall. The moth first arrived in Europe in 1985 and has since spread rapidly throughout the continent, it was first found in Britain in 2002 and is likely to become widespread. Because of the size of the tree there is no effective way of treating them and the pest has no natural enemies.
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Location: Buckinghamshire, England
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