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Plague of flower beetles
The last couple of weeks has seen a huge increase in the numbers of
little black flower (pollen?) beetles. Now reaching a stage where anything in the garden that is yellow quickly becomes coated in a writhing mass of black beetles. Courgette flowers are particularly badly affected. Even seemingly inert yellow objects like my neighbours "marigold" yellow rubber kitchen gloves get coated. Marigolds are just about the only yellow flower in the garden that is not submerged under a layer of black beetles. I made the mistake last week of walking outside in a yellow sweat shirt and was instantly plastered in the things too. Any ideas what makes them appear in such huge numbers all of a sudden? Flowers are a bit thin on the ground at the moment after a cool damp fortnight. Does anything bother to eat them? I don't remember having this problem last year. Regards, -- Martin Brown |
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