Moth that's killing off our conkers; EXPERTS SAY INFESTATION THREATENS FUTURE OF HORSE CHESTNUT TREE.

The Evening Standard (London, England) | October 12, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: NEALE ADAMS

IT STARTED as a blight on the back gardens of west London.

Now the advance of the horse chestnut leaf miner moth, whose larvae devour the tree's leaves, is so rapid that some conservationists fear for the very future of the species - and the traditional autumn conker.

The leaf miners (Cameraria ohridella) were first discovered in Britain in 2002 when pensioner Marian Comfort spotted them in her back garden in Wimbledon.

Recognising them as the same pests that had decimated horse chestnut trees across Europe, she ...

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