Zeuzera pyrina (Wood leopard moth)

Pest Behaviour

The Wood Leopard Moth (Zeuzera pyrina) normally produces one generation per year, in cold areas the cycle is usually biannual. The flight period is very long, which entails a large number of larval births and in a staggered manner.

It is a very polyphagous insect. It attacks numerous species of stone and pome fruit trees; also to forest and ornamental. It is especially serious in pears and apples.

It is a xylophagous species, it digs galleries in the trunk and branches to feed and develop that destroy the vascular system of the trees. The attack symptoms are the presence of galleries in branches and trunk, sawdust and excrement at the entrance of these and general weakening of the tree. It generally entails the appearance of scolithids on trees weakened by the insect's attack.

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