What's eating this Ash?

[Andy Clark]

Some pics attached of samples taken from 2 out of a group of 3 Ash trees - all growing in a residential garden in a semi rural area of Bedfordshire.

 

No other trees in the area affected, so seems to be species specific.

 

All 3 trees are semi mature - approx 350/400 dbh, 12ish m crown spread, 13/14m overall height. All 3 trees suffering same damage, to approx 90% of crown leaf coverage.

 

 

Google'd this to death and been through my books and nothing jumps out as being such a major defoliatior of Ash.

 

Answers on a postcard to - "I hope it's not EAB.... "

[Swampster]

Pigeons.

[sloth]

That'd be my guess too...

[daltontrees]

Pigeons.

 

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