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  • Caterpillar eating my rose leaves

    Hi,
    I have never seen caterpillars on rose plants. Aphids .... yes.....but caterpillars ...never!!!! These are green coloured catterpillars eating all the rose plat leaves and they are 5-6 of them on one leaf. Any one else seen these before? Is it best to spray some bug killer to get rid of them.
    cheers Reks

  • #2
    We get these little blighters every year. They seem to work together eating all of one leaf and then moving to the next one. I spray with Provado.

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    • #3
      could be sawfly? Voracious little beasts. Try and hoe the soil to expose the pupa to birds
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Deffinately sawfly. The fly itself is a black and yellow job, and the little green caterpillars (my fish love 'em) will compltetly strip your roses bare of leaves.

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        • #5
          It is def sawfly!!!!!!! I have a insect spray for roses and flowers but that doesn't state it is effecitve on sawfly. I bought this rose plant last year with just bare roots and its grown so big this year but affected with aphids, fungus, blackspots..u name it and now the sawfly
          cheers Reks

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          • #6
            Yeah, roses aren't the easiest things to grow, like brassicas. Possibly more trouble than they're worth
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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