These insects are defoliators. The leaves disappear, sometimes practically overnight. The mock orange sawfly is a pest that has been moving up from the South.

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I grow mock orange, which you can see in the enclosed photo. You can readily see that this is not the plant you ran in your column last week. For one thing, the flowers are double.- ...