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Hi. I found these two amoruous bugs on my fritillaria imperialis. Are they nasty or benine?   Red lily beetles-common pest http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/problem-solving/help/80628.html   I think it is the dreaded lily beatle. What should I do

, the beetles are pollen beetles and do no harm.

exclusively for wildlife. Building the garden from scratch, I was able to choose the best nectar- and pollen-rich plants for insects, put in a pond for my frogs (it's in a tin bath but it still has different depths and a variety of native plants), a compost

swarm of bees, sacks full of pollen on their legs, trying to locate their tunnels. I felt really guilty about disturbing them so I finished the job as fast as I could and replaced things as well as I could. I have to keep fishing them out of the pond now

to them My runner bean flowers are smothered in pollen beetles will they affect cropproduction? To BrianukI, too had a problem with my Japanese maple. A scale-type inspect with a shite 'cotton wool' tipe casing. Had to resort to an insecticide on advice

are not bugs but pollen beetles. The way I clear them is to hold the bunch of flowers in my hand, extend my arm and swing it round like a windmill, as fast as I dare without wrecking the flowers. It's a similar action to drying lettuce held in a tea towel

Producers, who tried to force him to advocate the use of Bayer's 'Provado bug Killer' as a treatment for Lily Beetles.   Systemic neonicotinoids remain inside the sap, leaves and flowers of a plant for the entire growing season and render the pollen

to reach. I had pots and pots of plants destroyed by these awful creatures so I have no problem killing them, one large pot had 100 grubs in it so one adult beetle can devistate your whole garden. really do have to kill vine weevils or they will devistate

. Insects do not care from whence cometh the pollen, just as long as it is there. So double flowers are out if you want bees etc. The most popular plant in our garden for Bees is a Lonicera alseuosmoides. Nothing much to look at or smell, but I counted over

bean in sight. Usually at this time I am eating them every day and giving them away! All advice gratefully received Try essential oil sprays. I was given a book called The Fragrant Pharmacy and it has a gardens section. I made a family of Flea Beetles