Lily Beetles

[FredaFox]

Hoping somebody has a good recommendation to get rid of Lilly beetles, they are devouring Lilly's ☹️

Stomp on them.

They fall upside down so you have to put paper under them before you try and knock them off the plant. You have to be diligent and check every day.

If you disturb them they drop. Put a container beneath them so they drop into that instead of disappearing into the soil. Then turn the beetle out of the container onto a hard surface and STOMP ON THE BLIGHTER.

Second that! Knock them of the leaf and stamp on them!

And don’t forget to wipe their horrid poo covered larvae off - with a tissue!

They must be rampant this year as I have disposed of loads. The ones I find are always having piggy backs with each other.

BugOff spray seems to be working so far...

Picking them off and wiping off larvae works beautifully. We have done it for years and this year - amazingly - don’t seem to have any. Don’t spray, you’ll kill loads of other insects too, and these ones really are possible to manage by hand.

A daily inspection first thing, then use kitchen paper for them to drop onto and as others said, stomp on them. It’s the only way.

Yes!!!! They are piggybacking!!!

Thanks all I've been collecting them in a bag then stomping on it!! I wondered if there was something more technical!
I had them for the first time last year so recall the nasty poo but don't appear to have any yet thankfully!
There are definitely more this year

We've planted Pink Defender , which is meant to be beetle resistent. It's alongside our original lilies and the Defender does appear to have signifcantly less damage than the old lilies, even if I have picked beetles off both.

I've given up growing lilies. The most recent bulbs I purchased have been worse than useless (less than 50% showing, so maybe it's me?). I love lilies.

This is the first year I have ever had them and there are loads. Have been trying to wipe them off and kill them but they keep on coming back. Getting sorely tempted to get a spray to kill them off for good!

Except it won’t kill them off for good, just the ones that are on there today.

Just making sure everyone knows that it’s the piggybacking (sex!) that’s causing the trouble! It’s the larvae that cause the most damage and are the most disgusting (live smothered in their own poo…)