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Talkback: Dung-flies and rat-tailed maggots

to it. It's fun!Kate I've just found a dung beetle in my nettle bucket! So exciting! Kate Bradbury wrote (see) I've just found a dung beetle in my nettle bucket! So exciting! Last year I spent a good half hour watching dung-flies mating in the bucket by happymarion

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30/05/2012 18:12:59

by Katie Blue

Do you think...

help.I'd have just planted them out ! Golden elm are not fast growers. I think £15.00 each sound a very good price. That is Scarab beetle grub.i think you must really search in the roots of those trees in case there are any more. Scarab beetle?? I feel by Klink

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07/05/2013 21:36:23

by Klink

vine weevil

Hi everyone, yesterday i caught a sneaky vine weevil upto no good on one of my pristine primulas. Immediatly, I went out and bought some vine beetle KILLER, but when I got home and studied the remedies I already have in my greenhouse, I came across by peter privett

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22/04/2013 21:01:30

by goldfinch2

Begonia Corms

to be stored. Do I have to check them through this dormant period? Thanks so much both of you. That is lily beetle Vine weevil grubs-small creamy things with brown heads -often found in containers-they eat roots and have a tendency to burrow into begonia corms by Carol Thomas

28/10/2012 13:54:58

by ernie's ghostly gold tops

Talkback: Top 10 plants for containers

allows moisture out, but should stop weevils getting in. I read in Gardeners World mag that to lift them off the ground slightly, as the beetles can't fly or climb. Having said that on emptying a rose I had had in a pot for 3 years, The soil was riddled by shize56

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10/06/2012 14:29:44

by Green Magpie

Talkback: Garden frost

Yes, you are correct after first frost it should kill most of the pests outdoors, or make then go into hibernating. -Brian I found a red lily beetle yesterday while turning over some soil - seems not all the pests are being killed off. My astrantia by kaycurtis

28/11/2011 18:37:44

by Honesty

Talkback: Moths and bats

Very jealous! We have a big street lamp outside our garden so unlikely we'll get bats flying past as there's a big, dark park next door. Did loads of bat walks along the Thames last year though - our bat detector kept picking up stag beetles! many by magz

28/11/2011 18:41:09

by jude

Talkback: The insects have gone berserk

Now how did your beetle arrive over here from South Africa? People do not usually bother to import rotten wood. Was it brought in on imported flowers or fruit? Or did it drop off a plane from S.A.? The detective in me is aroused, Richard. But I by Murray Fortescue

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28/11/2011 18:43:31

by tarasgarden

Lupin problems

the look of, and then wonder why we have every bug known, and a few that weren't a few years ago (lily beetle for example). Since I stopped using sprays and things a few years ago, my plants are healthier, I have lots of garden birds and fewer pests. I by Yellow Daisy

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05/06/2012 12:34:56

by Wintersong

ornamental grasses

. How about Lilium lancifolium? Just pick off the lily beetles every day without fail. and a lovely late summer, autumn flowering allium - Allium tuberosum? Grows to two feet and white flowers. I have a dark red/black grass in my garden. Not sure how by green fingerd will

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21/04/2012 12:31:25

by cesca1

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