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Help! What’s eating my rose?

SomersetGardenSomersetGarden Posts: 9
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We planted two David Austin ‘Iceberg’ climbing roses next to our porch last winter. The idea is that in time they’ll climb up and over the porch. Anyway, we’ve just returned home after a week’s holiday  and something is eating the leaves. It’s really extensive - see two photos.

I’ve looked online and can’t see any photos that look quite like this, so I’m not sure what is attacking it. 

Any help to identify and suggest what to do would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏼

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  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    Caterpillars of some description by the look of it. Mine get munched sometimes too. Doesn't do any lasting damage to the plant 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Could be vine weevils.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SomersetGardenSomersetGarden Posts: 9
    gjautos said:
    Caterpillars of some description by the look of it. Mine get munched sometimes too. Doesn't do any lasting damage to the plant 
    Thanks for your reply. All the photos I can see online of caterpillar bite marks are very circular, which is why I didn’t think it was that?
  • SomersetGardenSomersetGarden Posts: 9
    B3 said:
    Could be vine weevils.
    Thanks for your reply. Do you know much about vine weevils? I think they live in the soil don’t they? There’s a layer of bark on top of the soil so we’d have to clear that off to have a look underneath. 
  • SomersetGardenSomersetGarden Posts: 9
    Something I didn’t mention - not sure whether it’s relevant - but one of our hydrangea plants next to the rose appears to have died too. Really odd! The other six hydrangeas planted at the same time are all going great guns.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That might be due to vine weevil grubs eating the roots. If you dig the hydrangea up look for small white/cream C shaped grubs amongst the roots. You could try washing off the soil and/or using nemotodes (at the right time of year) but vine weevils are causing havoc these last couple of years.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • SomersetGardenSomersetGarden Posts: 9
    Lizzie27 said:
    That might be due to vine weevil grubs eating the roots. If you dig the hydrangea up look for small white/cream C shaped grubs amongst the roots. You could try washing off the soil and/or using nemotodes (at the right time of year) but vine weevils are causing havoc these last couple of years.
    Thanks for your reply. That’s what I feared. I’ve just ordered an adult vine weevil trap and some Nemasys vine weevil killer. 

    I’ll dig up the hydrangea tomorrow and take a look. What a pain!

    Thanks again 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Leaf cutter bees.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • SomersetGardenSomersetGarden Posts: 9
    Lyn said:
    Leaf cutter bees.
    Thanks for your reply but I don’t think it’s that. The photos I’ve seen online of leaf cutter bee marks on rose leaves are very circular in shape, very different from the ones on our roses.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Too irregular for leaf cutter bees, certain it is Vine Weevils.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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