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what is sweaty feet disease?
By Wibble
United Kingdom
I have noticed this all over Hampshire and Sussex: The smell of sweaty feet coming from viburnum tinus. They subsequently die and infect the soil. Is there a cure?
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- 18 Apr, 2009
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YUK!!!!
18 Apr, 2009
oh i thought it was my husbands feet !!
18 Apr, 2009
SK - you're too far away to be able to smell mine :-)
18 Apr, 2009
Possibly Viburnum beetles, they do produce a very unpleasnt smell on the shrubs. Have the leaves got holes in them?
18 Apr, 2009
The smell is a result of the actions of Viburnum Leaf Beetle. I believe it is the result of the female laying her eggs in small holes on the underside of twigs. She covers the eggs in a mixture of chewed wood pulp and faeces - it is this heady mixture that gives off a foul smell during warm weather. If you have been unfortunate enough to smell a mangy dog ( I have!) then you would recognise the odour immediately. VILE.
23 Jun, 2009
Hi, I think this was answered on question 7455
14 Mar, 2010
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