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Originally Posted by Kayleigh  Mine was another damn lily beetle..On my beautiful lily's..I seem to be picking one off a day.  |
Pretty beetles 'tho aren't they?
However many I remove they always manage to lay some eggs (little patches of elongated orange eggs, attached by one end usually to the underside of the leaf). Some eggs always hatch so I wash my lilies down with a hose once the larvae are visible: you get a fat little orangce grub surrounded by a nasty mush of pooey stuff as it munches through the leaf.
They will overwinter too , as white grubs and it helps to lift the bulbs in winter and clear out the grub-filled soil, replacing with fresh compost around the bulbs : worth doing certainly for lilies in pots & tubs.
In gardening...some ya win...some ya lose
