Twobanded Japanese Weevil

Twobanded Japanese weevil attacks a wide range of trees and shrubs in the landscape, but it is especially fond of cherry laurel, broad leaved evergreens, pyracantha, privet, barberry, and euonymus. Adults are defoliators, chewing on the leaves. Damage begins as marginal notches and increases to large rounded sections of the leaves being consumed. Holes are always cut inward from the margin, never in the inner part of the leaf. The larvae feed on roots of plants in the soil.