What is eating my poor rose?

[GloiredeDijon]

Any opinions on what is eating/ damaging my poor old rose please?
This is a very established Veilchenblau.
It got like this last autumn so I pruned it hard removing all diseased growth and then sprayed with rose clear in spring.
Not sure what else I can do.
Photo below awaiting approval

Fuck me. I’m bleary eyed and thought the title said nose instead of rose, and was horrified and confused by your photos.

Time to go to sleep!

I think it could be sawfly larvae. I’ve had it happen to a couple of my roses and they leave the spine of the leaf behind.I turned the leaf over and found them chomping away. They look like caterpillars. I just pulled them off and put them in our green bin but I think I intercepted them a little earlier than your poor rose. I’m due it will recover. There are insecticides you can use but that might not be your thing. Good luck.

I agree, probably rose leaf sawfly. I just marvel at them for a few mins - they are voracious and so efficient - then do a thorough examination and pick them all off. The rose recovers fine fine.

Have you used your sprayer for weed killer?

It should be growing vigorously at this time of year, and if the damage is from sawfly larvae or another pest there will be new undamaged growth coming through. However, it looks to me like weedkiller damage which roses are extremely sensitive to, even traces left in a sprayer which has been washed out. I sent this photo of one of my roses to the RHS advice service. Their response:

“Many thanks for contacting the RHS Advisory service regarding your roses. I'm afraid that these symptoms are very characteristic of weedkiller damage, so I fear the plants must have been exposed in some way.
Common ways plants are exposed include:

1. Compost or manure with trace residues of weedkiller. This can happen if a home compost has been used which contains green garden waste (including grass cuttings) where weedkiller has been used. However, this problem can also occur with purchased commercial compost.
2. Spray drift from within the garden or nearby crop field, or even close proximity to grass/hedge verge where weedkiller may have been sprayed.
3. Using a vessel which has held weedkiller. Even if this has been cleaned out, sometimes there are enough trace residues to affect sensitive plants.

Some plants are extremely sensitive to hormone-based weedkillers and even a low level of weedkiller can be enough to cause the growth deformities that you are seeing.”

I have never used my sprayer for weedkiller and I never use weedkiller in my garden apart from a few years ago painting roundup stump killer on bamboo shoots and more recently the recalcitrant stump of a pyracanthas.

Neither of which was anywhere near this rose.

It is only used for Roseclear.

Thanks for the responses.

I have given it a good spray after looking for any insects but all I saw were a few little green aphids.

Really hoping it recovers.