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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.

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cheers Reks

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.

could be sawfly? Voracious little beasts. Try and hoe the soil to expose the pupa to birds

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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.

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

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cheers Reks

Yeah, roses aren't the easiest things to grow, like brassicas. Possibly more trouble than they're worth

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