 However, specimens had been collected in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in 1924.In 1996 it was discovered in a park in New York, where native plantings of arrowwood ("Viburnum dentatum" complex) were found to be heavily damaged by larval feeding.The UK-based Royal Horticultural Society stated that its members reported "Pyrrhalta viburni" as the "number one pest species" in 2010.