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Cultivation => Cultivation Problems => Topic started by: fredg on June 05, 2010, 07:31:08 PM

Title: Garden chafer
Post by: fredg on June 05, 2010, 07:31:08 PM

The Garden Chafer, Phyllopertha horticola, has appeared again in its masses.
They're now ruining the flowers on a white climbing rose.
Any ideas on how to combat them?
There's hundreds of the little £&$#&#@s  :-[

Title: Re: Garden chafer
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 06, 2010, 04:51:31 AM

Can you post a picture of them please?

Title: Re: Garden chafer
Post by: fredg on June 06, 2010, 04:56:24 PM

The climbing rose's flowers are now destroyed. >:(
At least the rain has slowed them down a little.

Title: Re: Garden chafer
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 07, 2010, 12:22:44 AM

Thanks Fred. (The first pic would have been enough. ;D) I had wondered if you were talking about what we call Maybugs (although they are active in OUR spring which is Aug-Nov) and are the brown shiny beetles which lay the eggs which turn into grass grubs. But obviously not. I don't think we have these. I've not seen them anyway though we have some native chafers in the mountains.

Title: Re: Garden chafer
Post by: james willis on June 07, 2010, 08:27:21 AM

I have yet to see your garden chafer amongst the many critters good and bad that we get in the garden.  We do get a great many rose chafers which I am assured is garden friendly and I find its larvae in great numbers in the compost and leaf mould.  But to your problem: unless you are averse to chemicals you could try Provado Ultimate Bug Killer which I find is very effective against lily beetles.
Jim