Henry, I salute you! You undoubtedly have vast experience with roses, but
in my mind you will always be the one who posited the memorable phrase
"Magnificent Sevin" -- kudos from this would-be wordsmith & erstwhile
proofreader! (More accurately, the once & future proofreader, but I
digress.)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know -- the phrase Magnificent Sevin must surely have
been used before, after all, thousands of rose growers muttering all sorts
of imprecations on all manner of rose pests most likely came up with the
phrase before, but..... I ("moi") was not there to applaud such usage.

Oh, dear, I think it really is time for me to go pick on some other
newsgroup (or my WordRacer pals)...... I meant to say that it would be
improper for me to share my vast expertise & witty repartee with only one
audience, so I bid you all adieu.

Hee, hee, hee (perhaps I inhaled too little in the 60's and way too much
pesticide in the "oughts")

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC

"Henry" wrote in message
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dave weil wrote:
As an update, the roses stayed clean from JBs for at least 3 or 4
days. Then they started coming back a little at a time. I've been
picking them off pretty easily. Today was the first day that they are
been swarming a bit (but not as bad as before).

So, I've hit the bushes with more Sevin. We'll see how this goes...

I've been away all week and just came in today. Sometime during the
last week, the JB have arrived in Gaithersburg. In the hundreds!

All the buds anywhere near opening on Johann Strauss and Auguste Renoir
have been destroyed, Linda Campbell has done some better but there are
still a lot there. On Zepherine Drouhin they have really attacked the
leaves pretty badly (but it's so huge, it will easily come back if I
stop it now). Pat Austin has a few blooms and they don't seem to have
bothered it at all (and it's right across the fence from the first two
which were the worst hit). Roses elsewhere in the yard are less
bothered, Bibi Maizoon had her first flush late and is without buds
right now and seems to be free of beetles.

Look out beetles, here come the Magnificent Sevin.

--
Henry
Gaithersburg, Maryland
USA