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Lillybugs infestation.

dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
in Problem solving
Lillies being attacked by bugs. From over a month I keep picking adult bugs and horrible black stuff hiding larvae... Is it widespread or just I am having problem. 

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Sadly very common, you just need to be vigilant and remove them every day.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
    @punkdoc, thank you. Agree... Be vigilant and remove and destroy. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @dpatel2130 Not pleasent known as frass. You could use a plastic tub to catch the adults as they drop.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I hate the things,  I think they stink. I can pinpoint them as soon as I go out in the garden.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Start earlier next year with the bright red adults.  They like a sunny day.  You can spray or pick them off and squash them.  Carefull, they see you coming and drop off, never to be found.

    The grubs covered with sh*t (what a brilliant defense) are best picked off with a leaf.  

    Now very common on all lilies and some fritillaries.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Also Daffodils.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Are you sure, @GardenerSuze?
    I have never seen anything about them attacking Daffodils.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited June 2023
    @punkdoc I have seen them crawling up the leaves of daffodils. I must admit I was suprised not sure if they were actually eaten.   I would have thought daffs were an aquired taste even for a lily beetle. They were Snakes head fritilleries in this garden too, perhaps a confused Lily Beetle? I have seen this more than once in different years.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
    @punkdoc, @bede, @GardenerSuze, @Lyn, @ Thank you.
    Frass, larvae and bug got to go at first sight.  Crafty little creature... Hide larvae in frass and the adult when drop in soil fall upside down and can't find. Plastic bowl is good idea. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @dpatel2130 Yes they know what they are doing very crafty indeed. Good luck hunting them out!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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