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What is the box tree pyralid, an insect found beside vegetable fields?
As spring warms and flowers bloom, insects begin to become active. During a recent science-and-technology outreach activity in the countryside, it was found that a pest called the box tree pyralid had begun to occur and cause damage on boxwood along the roadsides of the park. The box tree pyralid is one of the common pests on plants such as boxwood, small-leaved box, large-leaved box, littleleaf box, Chinese box, spoonleaf box, Korean box, and holly, and it occurs in Shanghai and other provinces and cities. In Shanghai it has 3 to 4 generations per year, with severe overlapping of generations. It usually becomes active in March in spring, begins pupating in mid-April, begins emerging in late April, and the first-generation lar