Would earwigs eat rose leaves?

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The leaves on my roses are being munched by something. The ones in tubs are particularly naked now

1. Could it be earwigs as they are the only insect I can find on any of them?

2. What can I do to the rose that now has no leaves left? Will it grow back?

Help! I love these roses as my Grandma gave them to me before she died.

Rose sawfly would be my guess.

You can pick them off by hand or spray.

If you prune the roses as usual, they should come back OK next year - just keep an eye out for them and treat them as soon as you can see there's a problem.

some of our roses seem to lose their leaves after flowering - look rubbish now but come back next year.

If you look at the stems are there brown scars on them like this?
If so it's sawfly - full story here, lots more if you google.
The leaves won't grow back this year but, next May/June, if you snip off and bin or burn (not compost) any affected sprigs the minute you notice they're getting nibbled you'll limit the damage. The moths that the caterpillars turn into overwinter in the soil at the base of the rose so if you get the caterpillars away before they pupate, or even before they hatch, you'll decrease the chances of having the same problem next year.

I think earwigs are carnivorous

Thanks Ladies

Have just found a site on roses that says earwigs do eat roses too so perhaps it is them as I have checked for the sawfly signs and can't find anything.

Keep your fingers crossed for my little roses and I will be out with a torch tonight squishing earwigs

Earwigs can devastate a garden. I once lived in Coventry, and had beautiful, newly planted beds.

By the next morning everything was gone. I checked in a few gardening books and identified the 'bite marks' as those of an earwig.

I didn't fancy a running battle with them, so I just stuck to shrubs from thereon in.