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What pest is this?
Hello Mike,
I knew it! When you described the damage I said to the greatest enabler on earth "Mike got sawflies on his roses. Damn! I hate those critters" I am sorry, I really wanted to be wrong but the way you said they went around the bud to me is a dead give away. I don't really know what you can do in Texas because of the heat, but here is a good link to look at the possibilities. I got those *bahthards* when they had just hatched and found some doing their dirty deed around some of my canes, which prompted a preemptive strike of horticultural oil all over them, if for no other reason than because I didn't have anything I could spray that like you, didn't make me ill about my bees and my hummers. It actually sort of worked, but in the end there is a natural cycle to it and I just tried to be aware of their presence and use Safer soap to drown them. A cannon would have been more to my likening at the time, but then there were the roses to consider. Here is a link that may bring some comfort to you, .. http://www.paweekly.com/PAW/morgue/r...21.GARDQA.html is kind of naive but well intended and somehow comforting, something a rosarian can use in the presence of winged enemies. As far as your photos, send them to and I will be happy to post them for you with your name and whatever you want to write about them. Plain jpgs will do nicely. Don't worry about compression or any some such. We can take care of it there. Get yourself a cold drink, go visit with your roses and don't let the little *bahthards* get you. At least you have blooms in the making, in here we are still half asleep in frog pajamas! BTW, we have a client that BH and I call "huge tracts of land" and I guess you will know why ....;) Allegra |
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