The insects feed upon ash, lilac, privet and jasmine leaves.
Depending on where you live, this could include privet.
Nurserymen have found that the Phillyraea unites readily with Privet, so that nearly all their stock is grafted, and the plants die out just as they should be in full beauty.
The Osmanthuses may all be propagated by cuttings, and although it takes longer to obtain plants on their own roots they are much to be preferred to those grafted on the privet.
Between the rising swells of long-leaf pine lands are impenetrable thickets of hawthorn, holly, privet, plane trees and magnolias.