去年有花友提醒我:最近发现铁树里有虫专吃嫩芽,而且来无影去无踪。当时我想,养了几十年的铁树从没见过有虫,便没当回事,没想到今年偏巧就碰上了。第一次在今年6月中旬,我外出三天,回来见一棵发了很多新芽的铁树,一丛新芽转眼间变成了一堆芽渣,也没见到虫影。第二次在9月上旬,清晨起来发现铁树的一片嫩叶被虫咬得残缺不全(图1)。仔细寻找,终于在叶背面发现了这个铁树的新敌(图2),再细搜寻,又在铁树底部的缝隙 Last year there are flowers to remind me: Recently found in iron tree worm-eaten sprout, but also disappear without a trace. At that time, I thought that Takeshita, which had been kept for decades, had never seen any worms and did not think seriously of this year. For the first time in mid-June this year, I went out for three days and came back to see a tree made of many sprouts. A bunch of sprouts turned into a bunch of shoots in the blink of an eye and did not witness the insects. The second time in early September, early in the morning it was found that a young leaf of Tamarix was bitten by insects (Fig. 1). Carefully looking for, and finally found the back of the iron tree’s new enemy (Figure 2), and then search, and the bottom of the gap in the iron tree