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Pest control

Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
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Today I found my rosemary and French lavender covered in rosemary beetles. I have picked off the ones I could see but have heard that they bury into the soil over winter only to return next year. So clearly I am concerned if I don't get on top it it now they will just come back with avengance next year. I am wondering if I should repot those in pots or whether that will help or not? I don't want to use pesticides so might just have to keep plucking them off? Does anyone else have this rosemary beetle in their garden? How have you controlled it and kept it away?? It's already destroyed most of my rosemary and my poor lavender looks very sick!! What is the best control methods for keeping these pests at bay? 

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  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237

    I think these must be spreading rapidly. I noticed them in my garden in Essex for the first time a couple of years ago. My mum has them for the first time this year in Cambridge and my daughter, in South London, has hundreds of them and spends hours picking them off and crushing them.

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Pest Control Greenwich CT , they'd sort it out.
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Sure as chips is chips Hosta - especially all those termites  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:
    Sure as chips is chips Hosta - especially all those termites  ;)
    pesky little critters aren't they?
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Sure are  :D
    The bugs are as well..... ;)
    I'm assuming it's Greenwich, N.York and not London, Jesus? Helluva pricey for you to fly over if we need our bugs killed here. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • kolliemma688FQLkCBMOkolliemma688FQLkCBMO Posts: 1
    all these pests are terribly interfering with life, I am very worried about it
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    kolliemma688FQLkCBMO said:
    all these pests are terribly interfering with life, I am very worried about it
    No ... they're not interfering with life ... they are life  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I rather suspected that someone was about to post an advert to a pest control business ... what pests you and your ilk are @ianaracu9qROSt461 🐜

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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