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fritillary flowers
Invicta2
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I have two patches of snakehead fritillarys in my garden which are flourishing. However yesterday I found that in one patch quite a few of the flowers had been eaten. The foliage looks untouched, and the plants look very healthy, could it be birds?
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Birds, mice, slugs, in my case OH has just mowed right over them!
Most of mine have all gone in the last couple of days. Not pleased, no seed
In the sticks near Peterborough
I best apologise to the muntjac then pansyface. I blame them for everything
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Caught culprit red handed, birds innocent
. It was a small bright red beetle, duly dispatched, hard body that needed to be crushed on a flag.
I'd better check for those
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Lily beetle?!!
Do they take the flowers and leave everything else intact?
I shall be searching tomorrow
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I didn't think I had any, pansyface. I don't grow lilies and only a couple of hemerocallis now
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Caught two more of them on my fritillarys. in the very act of trying to reproduce themselves, coitus interruptus followed and proved terminal. Checked on google, they are, sorry, were Lily beetles. I hope they dont have major infestations on fritillarys as they do on lilies.
I can't see any lily beetles on mine. Dove was here this morning and she's good at finding them if they're there
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