I always have a roll of duck tape when I am in the garden. For some reason, if I try to reach in they run. but if I have a piece of duck tape, they are a little slower to figure out what is going on. I barely need to apply pressure and they are stuck. I also use the duck tape to remove the eggs. then it all goes into the dumpster
This is a great idea! Hmmm🤔....wondering if I could attach some tape to a long stick and nab the little devils that are hard to reach. I'm off to construct my weapon. Thanks!
Thank you for this very timely advice. I killed one of the beetles on my lilies a few days ago, but I didn’t realize I should look for eggs. After I watched this, I went out and found some eggs. I really appreciate all your helpful videos.
I live in southern Ontario 🇨🇦 and discovered those little beasts in my backyard garden about 2 years ago and I tried neem oil and picking them off...nothing worked...so frustrating. I finally just pulled them out. Hopefully you have better luck 🌺🌸
Sevens powder works like a chair..... sprinkle around the base of the lily just as it emerges. It will kill the larvae as they try and crawl out of the ground. You’ll have to sprinkle a little bit more powder every 3 to 4 weeks until after flowering has occurred. They wiped me out one whole year. But now I have them under control! Thank God! 💐
Lilies are one of my favourite flowers! I've gone a bit overboard ordering tons of them through the years! Between the squirrels digging up the bulbs when planted, the rabbits eating them while they're growing and then the Lily Beetles - I almost gave up! But I gave in, planted a bit more this year and hand picked the Red Lily Beetles whenever I see them. Did not know to look for the eggs on the underside of the leaves :( Thanks for the heads up Nicole :) Will go egg hunting today!
I've had great success with neem oil, dish soap and warm water in a gallon spray bottle. I've been spraying down the plants with this mixture soon after the beetles emerge from the soil in spring and repeat the process throughout their growing season every couple weeks. It's not perfect, but just keeping up with it has allowed me to not have to spend my life squishing bugs. Also, it's important to use the correct kind of neem oil, since some types are diluted too much to be effective. I use neem oil from Dyna-Gro.
Oh Nicole!! I’m so sorry they found you!! My friend was part of the study done by URI several years ago and sadly, she had to dig and destroy them all as she could never get them under control 😰😰😰
As much as I like the birds up on the fence, I love the snake 🐍 in the flower bed even more! He’s at ground level getting all the bad bugs and other pests for you 💕💕💕💕💕 I can’t wait to have a garden big and wild enough to be able to see snakes 👩🏻🌾🥰👩🏻🌾🥰
(Janice from friends voice) OH!! MY!! GAAAWD!!! LILLIES!!! Prepping my 2022 flower garden, and I'm so contemplating to add lillies to grow in the garden?
Last year, I spent a month picking these things off and my lilies still were decimated. I ripped them out as I refuse to sustain the red lily beetle population.
Nicole, I am up here in central Alberta, zone 2-3. These beetles made their way here about 3 years ago. They love our martagons first then the asiatics. Both hubby and I go out through the garden several times a day when it is warm out(they are fairly inactive in cooler temps). Hubby squishes them I throw them in a pot with water/dish soap and oil. They get stuck in the oil and drown. We have so far killed about 1,000. Just hate them. The size of your lily stalks may be the least of your problems.
Thank you for sharing, always helpful. And those darn beetles are so badm. They ate my lilies last year. And the lilies didn't come back. I have another patch of lilies and they are fine so far, but I check them every day. Have a good one...day.
Thanks for the video. I did see those beetles last week & now I know they are not good & went to check on the few lilies I planted & sure enough saw a few beetles & also the eggs... like the duct tape or water bucket idea
I havent experienced dealing with lily beetles but I've dealt with every other pest known to man at this new property so I'm sure as soon as I plant some lillies I'll see them! 🤣🤣🤣 Not really funny though... 😒
I think I seen these in years past, but I didn't have much of a problem with them. I'm always afraid to just start killing bugs that I'm unfamiliar with, in case it's a beneficial one, so I'm so glad you covered this. I don't have many lilies as it is, so losing one that I love (which is all of them) to a bug that I didn't invite to dinner, is unacceptable!
Always a challenge to grow things! Thanks for this info. I hope not to see them. Last year I had to battle Japanese Beetles. I kept them from damaging the lilies too badly. Of course they like other plants too. Ugh! Hoping there won’t be as many of those this year. Keep on top of it!!!
What!!!?! You got gladiolus coming back in zone 4b? Wow, what a great experiment. Not sure if you have Japanese Beetles - this year I'm experimenting with VACCUMING them up... hehehehehe! Warmest thoughts Jennie
Your beetle looks very much like mine. I have Air potatoe plant beetle. It does not eat vegetables, plants, fruits or anything but air potatoes plant Only . Florida has to release them here and if I need more my wait is like almost 3 yrs. I got lucky they came in themselves. Ours are good bugs 🌸🌺🌻 Air potatoes plant is most invasive number 1 as it kills trees and everything it touches.
I knock them in a cup of soapy water. Just so you know the larve are covered in excrement so you might want to use gloves. They also like lily of the valley so you might want to check those too. I've had a problem for 4 years and is one of the few things I kill and don't relocate.
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Hate those red beetles but at least I have found them easy to see them and remove. My gladiolus bulbs overwintered for me as well but I’m in 6b. Amazing that they are coming back for you.
I have a lot of Asiatic Lilies and so far I haven’t seen those beetles yet 😬🤞. What I am seeing is a lot of Spotted Lantern Fly, another invasive bug from Asia, not on the lilies but on one of my fig trees. 😡
You brighten my day:) Omg, I had a red bug on mine a few days ago. One I had never seen before and this is what it is. So glad you did this video! I only have 2 hardy lilies and yuper sure enough there were eggs on them. I will now be checking them 1-3 times a day till I know they are ok. lol. They are my babies.
Your lilies came back!! What do you plant there if they are done for the season? Do you plant more flowers there or do you leave the plot empty until the next season?
That could also be rabbits or voles. They love seedlings because of their high BRIX levels. I've had rabbits graze off the tops of sunflowers and then the plants would grow branches. One year it didn't matter how many times I resowed peas, they got munched as soon as they emerged. Now my place is rodent proofed except for squirrels. Lots of work but worth it in the long run.
I watched some birds eat my sunflower seedlings so I found all mesh office garbage cans at the Dollar Store and turned them upside down like a cloche. Once the seedlings were taller nothing bothered them.
My lily pest: a gopher 😫 I planted about 200 this year (my first year growing lilies), and probably half of them have been DECIMATED by a dang gopher! I feel for you!
Thanks for a nice video. I have been killing yhe beetle but did not know qbout checkinf for eggs. Will go out and check right away. Greetings from Sweden!
Hi Nicole👋🏼from🇨🇦 Canada. Question🙋🏻♀️Could you plant garlic around your Lilies? It may deter the beetles. Also, can you collect in a bucket of water & feed to your chickens🤷🏻♀️I have a Japanese beetle issue on my grape vines. Chickens love them.
I just realized what I pulled in my garden are lilies. Some have these beetles. I won’t trust plant identification apps anymore. It told me those were weeds😭. Rip to those lilies
I'm in TN and we have a weed that looks like Lilly but texture will be different the leaf edge is slightly different and the roots are different. The weed is actually pretty when it blooms and get really tall.
I have some asiatic lillies and haven’t ever noticed an issue but I’ll be looking for those little beotchs now! I did see what was maybe a male beetle when you showed the two red ones lurking he was black and blue in your video.
Thank you, I did not know that they were harmful beetles. I thought that they were eating the bugs that were eating my lilies. I will be looking out for them now.
Have you used food grade diatomaceous earth? You can powder around the plants, like a salt shaker. Or you can add to water and spray on the underside of leaves.
@Silenced OK I used to treat my hens food with food-grade DE because 1) weevils would be in the food when I purchased it, and 2) had read it was good for de-worming hens. I now believe DE effectiveness is a myth! Weevils happily lived n the bottom of the bin, crawling through DE for weeks. As an experiment, I also threw in Japanese beetles, cockroaches, & crickets, into DE at least 1/4" deep!!! No deaths were noticed over the course of 3 weeks. And my hens still had worms.
Bug alert! You mentioned growing Amaranth in a previous video. It is a beautiful plant and edible too, an ancient grain. However, it does attract colorado potato beetles - big time. People use amaranth sometimes as a sacrificial trap plant = plant it outside the perimeter of the garden to attract beetles away from the plants you want to protect but you still have to have a method to kill them. I'm seeing beetles on mine today and soon the leaves will look like lace, so I'm removing the amaranth from the garden.
I found Lilly beetles 2 years ago on a very mature lilly about seven years old. Well 2020 garden I lost this plant I was sad about it. These beetles are ruthless I lost the hand picking battle. The first year I had thought I won, but year 2 they decimated my mature plant.
Blasted lily beetles! Hate them. They are rather beautiful bugs, a bit like Chinese lacquer. In the summer, I go around the garden with a small bucket of water so I can knock crawling pests into it. Then I can just let them drown. I have watched birds sit on the edge of the bucket and snack on the bugs. Good luck with your squashing regimen!
hold a small container of soap and water below the beetle or where they are likely to fall when you disturb them. their instinct is to fall into the ground. make sure the beetles fall into the soap and die.
Being so bright red, you'd think that birds would be picking them off left and right! Perhaps the birds can't see the color red? (But hummingbirds do 🤔) I know bees can't see red - red appears black to them. The deer love daylilies here in The Garden State, so good luck with that! BTW- daylilies are not a true lily.
I had them last year and this year I know to look for them 3/4 times a day.. My neighbors probably think I'm crazy checking over my lily's so often, they demolished them last year and now this year I have had a couple holes but no real damage yet(knock on wood) I smash the eggs between my fingers, I grab the adults and stomp on them sometimes still attached to each other(brown chicken/brown cow) Most people in my area haven't a clue about them, so I spread the word with some frozen ones.... I love lilies still...
Sevens powder. Works great!....... you must sprinkle it around the Lily just as it emerges from the ground. This will kill the larvae as it hatches under the ground. Once the stock is ready to flower do it again until after flowering occurs, every 3 to 4 weeks. My lilies that have no scent are never bothered by these beetles it’s only the beautiful smelling ones...... and that black substance under the leaves it’s not only it’s eggs it’s it’s poop! They in case their eggs in their poop which is why it smells terrible! Good luck! Happy growing!💐🌿
I wonder if a battery-operatwd hand-held vacuum cleaner would make it easier to suck up adult beetles? I use one for house spiders (using the crevice tool attachment)
So, the reason RLB does not damage day-lilies is because they are not lilies. Day lilies are actually hemerocallis. Thank goodness! I wish everyone the best of luck with RLBs.
THOSE NASTY RED THINGS ARE MY MORTAL ENEMY! 🤬😡🤬😡🤬 I tweeze them off and into a jar of soap water. I’ll be looking for eggs now that I know what they look like.
@@amaiaamaiaa - hmm??? Never knew that........ plenty of gardeners use it here in USA........( I only use a tsp or so , near the road @ my mailbox) sprinkled around my lilies that I have planted there. The USA is pretty horrible about what’s allowed in their products especially our food and cereals. We have known carcinogenic‘s in our food and they are allowed, other countries would never allow such dangerous chemicals in their foods.
@@rhondapelletier2141 oh I agree, my parent's have used it in their vegetable garden for yeaarrs and I'm trying to get them to stop because it's a known carcinogen... The stuff does WORK killing pests really well though
OMGish Gosh!!! Bug squishing, it's against my religion, or its against something, I know it's written in my rule book of life somewhere, it says it doesn't allow me to do that! (Bcuz you know, it only counts if it's written down.) I would have to get one of those bug vacuums! Have you seen those?! For real, it's a thing. Maybe you still should get one - for the adult bugs! Oh wait, they just fall into your hand don't they... dumb bugs... I mean - Yay! One thing tho - when you were talking about the birds, I kept thinking of different ways for you to hand a plate of bugs to the them. It would be like pizza delivery to them! Then I built them a little table next to their lil' bird door for the special bug deliveries. But ultimately, the bugs kept crawling off the plate, and off the table, and then falling backwards to the ground, all while screaming bcuz they saw a bird, and the bird is seeing stars bcuz the bugs are screaming in that certain pitch that scrambles their brain. Then the baby birds started crying bcuz they heard the bugs screaming too. It was chaos! So I gave up. Here's to you🏅 for so diligently being on Bug Patrol. You deserve it. Really. You do. ❤
@@FlowerHillFarm 🌱Unfortunately, I divided them in April. They are still standing well and I have plenty. I am selling them in Facebook Market Place; but, yours would be a gift.🌱
Oh no, I hate lily beetles, they massacre my lilies.......... Hate them. Yes, if you pick one up and hold it to your ear, it sounds like a baby mouse (pinky) squeaking....
They might. I feed them larva but it's difficult to contain the beetles without them flying away to get them over to my chickens and then guarantee that the chickens will be fast enough to catch them. It's just quicker and easier to squish them on sight!
Since these lilies are going to be used for the floral market, and since youre cutting off the blooms it wont be beneficial for pollinators anyways why not fight them with something systemic? Theyll take a bite and die and stop the cycle.