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While enjoying the Spring like warmth and quietly enjoying the flowers, what did i see but a Lily beetle strutting it,s stuff on my snowdrops!!! I can,t believe it.In best Victor Meldrew voice.

Hi all!  I think I have flea beetles munching on an unidentified small tree in my garden. Can anyone advise me whether this needs action, or should I live and let live?! The mystery tree is next to blackcurrants and gooseberries. Thanks

Purple-striped green beetles, 8mm long, congregate among the leaves, which they feed on. The beetles lay elongated eggs beneath the leaves from September and continue to do so on warm days right through winter. These hatch after a couple of weeks

It was getting dark, the cat was skulking after something in the shadows around the hutch and the guinea pig was squealing its head off. Something sinister on the patio? No, just another stag beetle.I often say how privileged I feel to have

Hi everybody. For the second year running the privacy hedge (viburnum tinus) outside the window of my front room has been heavily attacked by Viburnum beetle.  The plant is large ( 5ftx 5x3)and there is some healthy looking new growth, but despite

and reported, details here. Link not working Alina-another oops TRying again, Geoff - try here. I was looking at these-that just seem confined to the usa http://fyi.uwex.edu/news/files/2012/06/Japanese-Beetle-Picture.jpg There seem to be a few in Europe

I am planning my garden for the season.In the previous two seasons my garden has been plagued by lily beetle,my crown imperials were attacked and all my lilys.I have read that spraying sunflower oil on plants will help.Does anybody have any advise

I need some advice before I have just soggy stalks in place of my regale lilies! I have never had as much trouble as I have this year from this beetle  (and such a pretty thing too!!) And, I presume its the larvae? Slug like in looks and feel

The mint leaf beetle, Chrysolina herbacea is a native, iridescent green beetle that feeds on the leaves of the mint family in the south of the UK. Both the adults and their fat, black larvae feast on the foliage.Holes in leaves, made by iridescent

HiOn my asparagus I have asparagus beetle larvae (I missed picking off some of the eggs). I also have blackfly and another beetle which I first thought was a ladybird larvae but now realise it isn't. It's about the same size and shape