So now you've helped me with the greenfly, how on earth do i get rid of lily beetles?

[alittleone2]

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[MadBadandDangeroustoKnow]

The RHS has a factsheet at www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0500/beetle.asp. The only treatment they recommend is Provado Ultimate Bug Killer.

Otherwise, you can pick the beetles off the plants and squish them. They're quite tricky to pick off as they often either fall or jump off before you grab them, but try to get them all now, because once they start to reproduce, their vile little grubs attach themselves to the underside of the leaves with their own poo - apologies for the gruesome details but mummies are used to dealing with poo - and picking them off is a mucky, rubber gloves job. They're incredibly destructive, so hope you can get them before they wreck your lilies.

[mymblemummy]

We pick them off very carefully because if they fall on their backs they are impossible to spot. Then we stamp on them.

Rosemary beetles, with which we are infested this year, get the same treatment.

Pay a child to do it, 5p a beetle works for us.

[alittleone2]

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[woodstock3]

pick off and stamp on them. the buggers fly so you have to be quick. i did it every day for a week and after that they didnt come back.