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Message 1.Ìý
Posted by Don Kidick (U13987773) on Wednesday, 5th October 2011
This may sound like a silly question, but do Lilly Beatles attack strawberry plants?
Yesterday I was cutting back and moving around the runners in my strawberry bed and I found on one of the leaves what I am 99% sure was a Lilly Beatle. Will there be a problem next year with my new plants? What should/can I do now to reduce threat?
Any help or advice would be gratefully accepted.
Cheers. Don.
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Message 2
Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Wednesday, 5th October 2011
As far as I am aware they just attack lilies but may have found a place to snuggle down in your strawberries-they and the grubs do damage to the growing lily plant but as lilies have now died down until next year they must go somewhere.
I suppose the only thing you can do is watch out for them next year-of course it may not have been a lily beetle at all
Dont know if that is much help
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Message 3
Posted by jo4eyes (U13654107) on Wednesday, 5th October 2011
If it was a bright red/scarlett beetle then yes a lily beetle. At this time of year they are going to over-winter in the soil near to favorite plants- not strawberries IME. Have you got/had any lilies, in pots/ground nearby or fritillaries? because that's where they will have been! I squashed 2 in the recent hot weather, you just cant miss them with that colour. J.
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Message 4
Posted by lilylouise (U3205282) on Wednesday, 5th October 2011
There are Cardinal beetles which are red and can sometimes be confused with Lily beetles - have a look here .....
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Message 5
Posted by ladynovicegardener (U5368058) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
They do look very similar.
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Message 6
Posted by Don Kidick (U13987773) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
Now I am not sure which one it was, however one thing I do no – it is no more.
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Message 7
Posted by Deidre Smith (U14998011) on Friday, 7th October 2011
This may sound like a silly question, but do Lilly Beatles attack strawberry plants?
Yesterday I was cutting back and moving around the runners in my strawberry bed and I found on one of the leaves what I am 99% sure was a Lilly Beatle. Will there be a problem next year with my new plants? What should/can I do now to reduce threat?
Any help or advice would be gratefully accepted.
Cheers. Don.
Ìý I HATE these little pests, they have destroyed so many of my lilies over the past 6 years, I gave tried everything, I have lowered myself by using a shop bought spray that say's is killed Lilly beetle, sorry to say it had no effect. My husband kills them when he finds them, but it is the young larvae that does the damage. If you find something let us all know. I hate using chemicals, is there a organic fatty acid killer out there.
Sadly I was told they are hard to get rid of as if your neighbor has the problem too then you are fighting a loosing battle. I hope someone can tell me differently. -
Message 8
Posted by Barney_pl (U13897738) on Saturday, 8th October 2011
Deirdre, I think the only answer is vigilence.
I grow my lilies in big pots along the front of the house and this year, as always, checked them every day, first thing in the morning, taking off and squidging the beetles and their larvae as I found them.
This worked well, and though I found quite a lot, I had very little damage as I dealt with them asap. A little further along the road, and very close in 'flight distance', the lilies in two gardens were decimated. -
Message 9
Posted by bookertoo (U3655866) on Wednesday, 12th October 2011
Doing the twice daily stomp is the only organic method of keeping them under some kind of control. We have dozens of pots of lilies, and this year I did that which I said I would never do, I sprayed with Provado. This was because I was going to be away for all of May and part of June, and would have had nothing but 100 or so sticky yucky sticks to come back to!! It did work very well, I saw very few beetles, and those only at the end of the season. I made sure that no other plant got any insecticide, easy as they were in pots, and may be tempted to overcome my own scruples and do it again next year - depending upon how soon and in what numbers the blighters re-eappear.
They do attack fritillaries which are of the same family, but not day lilies which are not in fact lilies at all. -
Message 10
Posted by sparklepinksunflower (U10977805) on Friday, 21st October 2011
I have spotted lily bugs on other things in the garden. Maybe it was just having a resti have found them on a rose and a poppy in the past - still stomped on them!!!
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Message 11
Posted by bookertoo (U3655866) on Wednesday, 26th October 2011
You are right, they do sit on other plants as they go around lookng for more lilies or fritilaarias, and stomping them is the ony thing to do. They are not recognised as prey by birds or other insect eating animals as they are not native to the British Isles. With Japanese knot weed, balsam weed and many others, yet another import to damage the growing things here.
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Message 12
Posted by diggingdoris (U13981971) on Saturday, 19th November 2011
I use Provado every year very successfully!
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