Dailey O'Brien, DawnHudler, George2018-12-052018-12-052012-06-15Excerpted from Branching Out IPM Newsletter (2012), Vol. 19 No. 6https://hdl.handle.net/1813/60596Privet (Ligustrum spp.) is widely used as a landscape hedge and for the most part seems to tolerate life in a wide range of sites. However, there are number of pests that are commonly seen on this host. They include privet thrips, twobanded Japanese weevil and lilac/ash borer. In addition, there are some privet diseases including alternaria leaf spot and anthracnose.en-USprivet rust miteprivet thripstwobanded Japanese weevillilac borerash boreralternaria leaf spotanthracnoseligustrumfact sheet