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What's eating my roses?

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We're also getting some huge chomps out of some of our roses, what's doing that, and how do we stop it?




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Hi Connielarayne these large slices quite distinctive and my guess would be a leaf cutter bee is doing the damage.Bees are welcome visitors , so a method of controlling them is not available.Sorry not much help but there may be roses more resistant or a means of companion planting that will deter them.

21 Jun, 2008

 

Ah, so that's what I've got eating my amalanchier

21 Jun, 2008

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I had leaf-cutter bees - they built their little tubes of leaf in some plant pots where I had cuttings rooting. Gave me a bit of a fright when I tipped the contents of the pot out into my hand! Wasn't stung luckily! They are solitary bees and deposit individual cocoons around the place it seems.

22 Jun, 2008

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