Another new imported pest...........

[accremonious]

Today my 4 1/2 yr old granddaughter spied some new red beetles in Gran's new front flower bed! Well it took me less than 5 minutes on the internet to find and identify them. This medium is truly amazing. If you type in red lily beetles and select one of the first few choices you will find that this is a new insect first found in the spring of 2003 in Massachusetts. It comes from Europe and has no known predators in N. America. I know that my wife bought these tiger lilies at a garden center and transplanted them this past week. I will give you odds that this has slipped in past Canada Customs and Ag. Canada with out them being vigilant and diligent! Now are we supposed to import some kind of special pesticide, too?

Red Lily BeetlesA red beetle is veraciously consuming the foliage of true lilies (not daylilies). It is a relatively new pest, native to Europe. The lily leaf beetle ...
www.ladybug.uconn.edu/hotissues/RedLilyBeetles.html - 15k

Correction, I found on some other sites this pest was noticed in 1992 in Mass. and as early as 1945 in Montreal, Que. I tried to post a quote with picture but it failed to transfer from the U. of Conn. site but here is the link.

[BigChicken]

Another pest, what fun. My daughter was talking about beetles without spots, I never looked at the thing, they can't be this far down yet.

We bought Lilly's last year too and planted them in the yard. Now you've got me afraid. This has been the first year without the box elder bugs taking over the house, and the beetles with spots.

[accremonious]

Yesterday I saw this up near the eaves on some one's house! Cool! We live between 2 big nuclear power plants and have been always told by the Hydroids, "No problems with any leaking isotopes"! Ya, right.
Lately the media is saying that we are a terrorist target! Do terrorists keep pets? Did this one escape?www.truckstopusa.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10164/normal_100_1300.jpg

[SUNSHINE]

Also know as the Lily Leaf Beetle or Asian Lilly Beetle. Favorite
food is the Asiatic Lily will go to Orientals next. For some reason
they donot like daylilies. Will accept hollyhocks and hostas as
substitutes. They have no natural enemies.

These little buggers for the last 2 yrs have raised hell with my
lillies and have eaten them down to a bare stem :vmad: :vmad:

I use Sevin to control them and it seems to be working :D . Also
handpicking them and stomping the daylights out of them helps too.

This year they haven't seemed as bad. Don't know if it was b/c the
ground didn't freeze until Jan.or if it was due to a mild winter. I
started treatment with Sevin as soon as the first lillies poked up out of the ground. Constance vigelance is the only way to get rid of them.

These beetles probally snuck in thru the dirt or as eggs on the leaves.
Eggs look like a reddish orange streak on the underside of the leaf.

If you use Sevin make sure it is in the liquid form in a spray bottle.
This chemical has not hurt anything else in my garden and works
on contact.