Lilly Beetle

[FredaFox]

Can anybody help?
My dad used to buy a concentrate for lily beetle, it was a liquid he mixed in the watering can and watered all the lilies this time of year and before covering them for winter but I dont know what it was
The past 2 years we've had the beetles and while I get rid of them best I can in the summer I want to prevent them coming in the first place
I can see lots of sprays to buy but no concentrate to use now. I think it was a white bottle
Any ideas?

A lot of pesticides were banned by the EU some time ago due to their effect on bees and/or their toxicity to humans, so I'm not sure I'm going to be much help.

There is something you can use called 'winter wash' that deals with overwintering nasties, but you need to apply that in the autumn. Maybe something that is used for vine weevils might help, I don't know, or an all-purpose insecticide.

Ahh maybe that's why I can't find it
I'm only finding one spray coming up everywhere
They do a concentrate but to mix to put in a spray
Wonder if I could do a watering with it now just to get the large as they start to wake up
Thanks!

I find it very therapeutic to check my pots every morning and squish them! I never find more than a couple on each plant.

I did go picking them every evening last year, it's the poo stage I hate!

If you keep on top of the beetle stage you’ll have very few larvae

I get them on my fritillaries, show them no mercy. I usually put a medicine spoon underneath the ones I see (small and pointy so it goes through foliage without jiggling it too early, and fits in my pocket) they helpfully drop down into it and I squash them. If i lose one it'll usually climb back up and I'll get it the next time. Occasionally I'll see the red eggs, which I squash. I've never seen the larvae on the fritillaries (though I did get them on a pot of lilies many years ago before I'd wised up), they are disgusting. I'm sure I read that they can be fed to fish. It's a shame, the beetles are lovely and the larval stage fascinating. I assume in their native range there's a natural control. I'd rather enjoy my flowers than spend time peering at them, spoon in hand!