"Mentalguy2k8" wrote in message
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Lot's of them!

They're about the size of aphids. Anyone else experiencing them or
know what they are?


If they're the same as mine there are several zillion infesting my
roses, though dousing them with Provado seems to kill a lot of the
buggers. I don't know if they're to blame, but my first flush of blooms
were a stunted, distorted failure. But after Provado, I'm now getting
some proper flowers again.

Same here, I have a very small rose and with a million of these things
on it, it was getting even smaller!

Took 3 goes over the space of a week with the "multi purpose bug killer"
but they're gone now. I just assumed they were blackfly, but I'm
probably wrong.

Some more info he
http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...pollen-beetle/

Hadn't noticed them before but there has been a lot of rape grown in the
area, bad enough the smell of the rape fields without the beetle plague!


Yes, that certainly looks like them. My rose was covered in them on the
stems.

Hmm, mine are jet black and seemed to be doing a lot of damage. But maybe
something else was doing the damage and I've unfairly blamed them....


Ian