denuded

when
Viburnum opulus (Guelder Rose, Water Elder, European Cranberrybush, Cramp Bark, Snowball Tree)
met
Pyrrhalta viburni (Viburnum beetle)
... it was murder!

about a dozen shrubs had no leaves or just skeletons left (you can still see one of the little blighters on the leaf petiole (see large)... the RHS calls them the country's "number one pest species"!

it was warm and humid with waves of heavy showers today... making work a tad diffcult