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My rose plant was looking healthy and promising with many rose buds. A couple days later the leaves are full of holes and also ragged edges. It seem...
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Garden pest #871629
Asked June 04, 2024, 10:35 PM EDT
My rose plant was looking healthy and promising with many rose buds. A couple days later the leaves are full of holes and also ragged edges. It seems the answer is: tiny green worms ... chomping away...
I found and picked off maybe six of them.
Please shed light as to where originate from?
Is the plant in a weakened susceptible condition so it gets attacked? and any suggestions on how I can treat to get rid of the worms and retrieve plant ?...(I tried a couple possible home remedies....but I was only guessing. and this was just yesterday ...so I don't know if it helped.
Anoka County Minnesota
Expert Response
Photos? Roses have many enemies. Look here:
https://apps.extension.umn.edu/garden/diagnose/plant/annualperennial/roses/
From your description, perhaps a rose slug, a kind of sawfly larva. If so, insecticidal soap should be effective:
https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/sawflies
https://apps.extension.umn.edu/garden/diagnose/plant/annualperennial/roses/
From your description, perhaps a rose slug, a kind of sawfly larva. If so, insecticidal soap should be effective:
https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/sawflies
