Lily beetles
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Lily beetles
I hope everyone is checking their lilies for this red beetle because if you don't they will eat off every leaf.
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Re: Lily beetles
I believe I had these beetles last year. How do you control them? I hate to use insecticides.
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Re: Lily beetles
I haven't seen them here but I've heard they are getting to be a problem to the east. I think the only real way to combat them is with insecticide.
Re: Lily beetles
I hand pick but you have to be fast because they drop off of the plant and land on their back and you cant see them because their under parts are black.
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Re: Lily beetles
Thank you both.
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Re: Lily beetles
They made me compost every lilly 6 or 7 yers ago
So sad to hear you have them nove,
If hand pich.. keep a hand under the leaf and them use your finger nails or your feet
Pyrethum is effective .. I lave learned later
They are a live in late January here... and the look of the "nesthouse".. do not know a English word for it, ... under a leaf is just too ugly
Pia
So sad to hear you have them nove,
If hand pich.. keep a hand under the leaf and them use your finger nails or your feet
Pyrethum is effective .. I lave learned later
They are a live in late January here... and the look of the "nesthouse".. do not know a English word for it, ... under a leaf is just too ugly
Pia
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Re: Lily beetles
Thy they are called larva if only one, as a group I don't know what they are called but they look like something a bird would drop.
Your English is better than mine and I was born here. LOL
Bill
Your English is better than mine and I was born here. LOL
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Re: Lily beetles
Larvas
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Re: Lily beetles
Larvae I believe.
Spider's Hosta List There are photos there too
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Re: Lily beetles
Uglies
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Re: Lily beetles
I hit them with eight and that keeps them in check the only seem to go to certain areas in my yard the less sunny areas.