Hosts look sickly and growth is reduced. Control with a host of materials such as sevin, diazinon, malathion or several restricted-use compounds. Spot spraying works if you only have a few trees ' but scout carefully to catch each colony. The blackened stems were beginning to turn orange from the characteristic salmon-colored spore masses on the infected stems. Beds with Volutella blight are thin.
Many dead stems are present and many green stems have large blackened areas.
Foliage may be spotted with large brown spots and concentric rings may or may not be present. Beds that receive too much sun are the most stressed and vulnerable to infection. Look for euonymous scale infections on the pachysandra too. These will contribute to stress and infection. Remove the dead and infected stems from the bed.