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Brown Bugs eating hedge

Vanessa HeafordVanessa Heaford Posts: 1
in Problem solving

Hi

Please can any one advise how I can get rid of these brown beetle bugs which are eating all the leaves of my front garden hedge

I think they are GALERUCELLA - Black-Margined loosestrife beetles

 

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,327

    What sort of hedge is it Vanessa?  Any chance of a photo of hedge and/or bugs?

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,616

    Loosestrife beetles and larvae predate on loosestrife. Have you got a photo.?

    Best to get positive identification before you start spraying. Pyrethrum will kill most insects including the good ones.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    There's always a chemical to spray but the more you kill the more you upset the balance of nature.  Sprays don't discriminate. If you spray insecticide all insects die, the bees, the ladybirds, the lotimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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