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with purple stripes.Pick off the adult beetles and larvae by hand and destroy.Spray with an insecticide - thiocloprid or imidacloprid - between late summer and spring. Avoid using insecticide when the plants are in flower as bees may also be killed.rosemary

not at all aggressive.The room was full of flying insect's.It must be the warm weather.Oldchippy. Still to see a rosemary beetle in Bristol, Richard, and my garden has many large rosemary bushes and sage bushes in it.Do you know if their range has spread

it was more of a slug hunt rather than a bug hunt, as the cold drizzle set in for most of the day. So when a local gardener brought out her bottle of beetles, she was just joining in the fun of it all. Of course, they were rosemary leaf beetles, Chrysolina

Although the others you describe are probably the harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, your metallic stripy 'ladybird' is almost certainly a rosemary leaf beetle, Chrysolina americana. Look out for the pale grey grubs, up to 10 mm long, sitting

never ending battle all these bugs, need more of the good guys Before using thiacloprid, imidacloprid, acetamocloprid or any other neonicotinoid pesticide, I recommed visiting the Buglife website, to read their report summarising independent research on neonicotinoids. They kill ...

it or foster it? Possibly rosemary beetle, needs squishing. I think you will find the answer here:- http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problems/veg-and-herbs/rosemary-beetle/416.html. Sorry you will have to copy and paste the link rather than click

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. Chrysolina species. There is a lovely one on garden and water mint, Chrysolina herbacea (formerly called C. menthastri) but if it is on rosemary, sage or lavender it is C. americana, the rosemary leaf beetle. See this link:http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problem-solving/garden-pests-rosemary-leaf-beetle

More common garden pestsRosemary leaf beetleLily beetleVine weevilThrips

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