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Sep 2023
1:37pm, 27 Sep 2023
4,533 posts
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Curly45
Thanks will give that a try!
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Sep 2023
4:24pm, 27 Sep 2023
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jacdaw
Which sawfly? There are lots, mostly host plant specific.
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Sep 2023
4:29pm, 27 Sep 2023
4,534 posts
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Curly45
Looks like this really hard to see sorry!
We only started seeing pests this month really. Had some on the roses, but they've scaled back since I've trimmed them.
Like I say I'm happy to have some pests but these have a gone a bit mad and I'd like to reduce the number!
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Sep 2023
9:28pm, 27 Sep 2023
4,070 posts
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jacdaw
Large rose sawfly? They pupate in the soil, so as Fellrunning said, you might deal with them with a bit of cultivation and some robins. They will be just about done for the year, and you can never tell if they will be back next year.
I'm not really the person to advise because I seem to be increasingly gardening FOR invertebrates, first and foremost; much more important than the plants!
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Sep 2023
9:46pm, 27 Sep 2023
4,535 posts
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Curly45
We have a couple of robins (they fight each other of course, worse than the blackbirds for territorial behaviour 😂).
And a ton of other birds, usually about 15 different species each day so I'm keen for some bugs as I said.
Someone in the village is running a forest gardening one day course that looks interesting, definitely not this year but keen to understand what that might involve. Not sure we have enough garden really anyway.
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Sep 2023
10:03pm, 27 Sep 2023
22,310 posts
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Columba
I've had sawfly larvae on my gooseberry bushes for the past several years, - quite late in the season - and I've done what I can to discourage them but without much success... But this year, not a sign of them!
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Sep 2023
10:05pm, 27 Sep 2023
111,733 posts
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Hanneke
Saw fly larvae can be erratic. I had them on my gooseberries until someone told me to underplant with poached egg plant. They never returned!
I leave the Solomons Seal to be devoured, as that is late in the year when they are dying back anyway so no harm done!
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Sep 2023
10:52pm, 27 Sep 2023
4,071 posts
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jacdaw
Solomon's seal sawfly is a pretty adult!
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Sep 2023
10:54pm, 27 Sep 2023
111,735 posts
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Hanneke
And they don't actually harm the plant... So I leave them be.
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Sep 2023
1:24pm, 30 Sep 2023
22,314 posts
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Columba
I'd fogotten about the poached egg plants. I too planted them around the gooseberry bushes, so maybe that's why the sawfly have vanished.
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