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Old 05-07-2015, 09:35 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Little beetles

We've got these on some of our plants - the lily pictured

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l17/Number774/100_0678%20Little%20beetles_zpsao970u2q.jpg

AKA

http://tinyurl.com/ocr7n5v

and on some other plants - notably roses and peonies. I have a feeling
that this is the reason the flowers are getting a bit dog-eared. The
lily has also had a few go brown without even opening. So 2 questions

- Are the brown, not opening, flowers likely to be the beetles? Another
candidate is drought...

- Is there anything I can spray the little b**s with that won't kill the
bees? I'm kind of reluctant to try to get them all off with a pooter,
there are _hundreds_!

Andy
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For those who don't know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirator_%28entomology%29 is a pooter.