Could it be leaves cutter ants eating my plant?

[Return2thebasic]

I just saw one looked like a big brownish ant on my plant. I just wonder that maybe my failure of preventing slugs eating.my young plant was indeed due to the wrong target was focused? Do we have cutter ants in England?

No they live in South America, we do have leaf cutter bees though. It could have been a wood ant, they're bigger than the normal garden ants.

@Pinkywoo

No they live in South America, we do have leaf cutter bees though. It could have been a wood ant, they're bigger than the normal garden ants.

@Pinkywoo, oh thank you for clarifying that. A relief!

No worries!

You also have leaf miners in England. What does the leaf damage look like?

@hannayeah, not leaf miner which makes zigzag damage inside the leaves. These are properly eaten from the edge or in the middle, leaving leaves with bare veins (or not). But thanks for mentioning it.

Ah, got. I am recently seeing Japanese beetles and having a similar issue, but am in US.

It doesn’t sound like leaf cutter bees, they cut perfect semi-circular holes around the edges of leaves. They seem to like roses, but my Epimedium has been regularly attacked too.

Could be vine weevil. In which case, not only are the adults eating the leaves, but the grubs will be eating the roots.

[quote Return2thebasic]@hannayeah, not leaf miner which makes zigzag damage inside the leaves. These are properly eaten from the edge or in the middle, leaving leaves with bare veins (or not). But thanks for mentioning it.[/quote]
That sounds like caterpillars. What is the plant?