On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:26:14 -0000, "Alan Gabriel"
wrote:


"Cat" wrote in message
.. .
None of the daffs and narcissi planted I planted in one of my front
garden's borders in Autumn 03 have come up at all this Spring. They
gave us a fab display last Spring. When I dug up to see what had
happened to my bulbs, I discovered that many were rotten, and some
were apparently unaffected, but had neither root nor shoot. I
dissected one of those, to discover that it was partly rotten, and
where it was rotten, I found two types of larvae: one absolutely
minute, pure white, long little things, and the other a sort of dirty
cream coloured mini-maggot, with a little black head.
Can anyone tell me what larvae these are? Will they attack other
plants? To my surprise, there are long-established snowdrops in the
border which were totally unaffected? What can I do to get rid of
these fellas, or if they don't endanger other plants, should I simply
forget about daffs and narcissi in that border?
Thank you for any help you can provide!




Waterlogged soil can cause fungal attacks. Narcissus fly and stem and bulb
eelworm can attack bulbs.


Thanks for that. My border is not waterlogged in the winter at all,
so I assume that a combination of the fly and eelworm are at fault.
Will they attack other plants I may plant there? Is there any way to
get rid of them?





Cat(h)
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