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What's eating my rose leaves?!
BusyB
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Hi,
On one of my roses, the leaves all have semi-circular pieces missing. I have quite a few roses in my garden and the rest are fine (except for one other rose which has only one leaf affected in this way - I'm pretty sure this won't be the case in the morning!!).
Any help / advice welcome - thanks
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Leaf cutter bees. They don't actually do much harm to the rose apart from cosmetically.
Hi Alan, thanks for the info - and for coming back so quickly.
I've not seen this before so did wonder what on earth was going on
Thanks again; we have a bee friendly garden so happy to leave them to it.
If you have bee houses they are likely to turn green as they fill the cells with bits of leaf. Ours seem to really like my standard willow.
Hi Steve, we don't have any bee houses but do have plenty of plants they love.
Always happy to see bees and love watching them go about their business.
A bee house isn't hard to make and I do like to see them zipping in and out.