Lilly Beetle

[gojiberry]

Anyone growing lillies beware the lilly beetle is about. If you don't know what it looks like it is a very bright red and cannot be mistaken. I have found that vigilence and thumb and forefinger is the best form of control. I usually get them every year but have always managed to keep them under control.

Ian

[Two_Sheds]

The eggs are bright red too - crush them with your fingers.

[Nicos]

Yep...I'm on Lily beetle alert too!

Just finding the odd one so far...not as bad as last year though ( so far.....)

[heebiejeebie]

I've not seen any yet but the chickens do help out with beetle patrols!
Just wish they wouldn't eat the bleedin' lillies too...

[abby]

Lilly Beetles advice please...

How do you catch the little bleepers because when I go to catch em the bleepers do a dieing swan routine and I miss em , any tips would be great.....

[abby]

Just to let you know I caught and dispatched the cunning little critter by holding a piece of paper I had folded in a V shape just below it and it worked....

[Nicos]

Oh dear...we get them every year...and my plants are over in the UK and I am over here!!!!

Almost as fast at destroying the plants as gooseberry sawfly is with goosegog leaves

[abby]

What kind of things do you grow in france anything different?.

[Nicos]

What kind of things do you grow in france anything different?.

Not really- we are in the North- so the weather is very similar to S England.
We have a lot of wild flowers incorporated into dry stone walls- it's only our first proper year here and we're slowly moving our plants across the Channel!!!- The locals do seem to like Iris and roses and hydrangea .

Next year my lilies will be here for me to enjoy!!

[SueA]

I had a mini plague of lily beetles a couple of weeks ago, I usually go out with a paper tissue & try & wrap it round under where they are & push them off into it & squash them before they realise, hate killing anything but they aren't a native species & are very destructive. Here's a pic. of two I caught 'at it' on one of my lilies!

[abby]

Good job the are bright red and like to sun themselves on the top leaves late afternoon that's when I ambush em. What is the weather like with you hope its warmer than we have here still a bit brass monkeys ?...

[Nicos]

What is the weather like with you hope its warmer than we have here still a bit brass monkeys ?...

me????...urm- according to metcheck about 2C warmer than Cheshire!!!...and yup- it's just finished pouring down!


Sue- where are they from originally???

[abby]

Hope this helps Lily Beetles - Lilioceris lilii - UK Safari you can even click on something and hear em scream....lol..Will pass a rainy afternoon.

[Nicos]

didn't know they squeaked!!!