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Lily beetles -are they seasonal?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The RHS are running a lily beetle area survey.
  • whtalseywhtalsey Posts: 1
    I had some this year, the grubs reduced some of my plants to skeletons. They cover themselves in dark faeces, horrible slimy things. I was too late spraying with Provado. After i sprayed the lilies did survive.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I just squashed mine.
    I wonder where they came from though. Do they come with the bulbs or do they wander about gardens looking for a victim?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They fly around the place searching out lilies .... I'm not going to grow any for a few years ... hopefully that'll cut down on the local population. 

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





  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Lovely little critters. I'd love to see them in my garden to take some photos. o:)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Happy to send you as many as you like ... I have a large household matchbox ... I'll fill it up for you next spring  o:)

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I removed dozens of larvae from a large stand of dark lilies over a five or six week period. You're welcome to next year's if I missed any  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Many thanks in advance, Dove & Fairy, that's awfully generous of you. However I'll be content with photos of them lily bugs, don't bother with the real thing. ;) Actually I never see any in my garden presumably because I don't grow lilies.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That would account for it PJ!
    I didn't realise that they could fly. They don't fly when you go after them with the fingers of death.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Or perhaps that's the 'flying, fickle finger of fate'  B3  :D

    That's for anyone who remembers Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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